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Ballogie for some two miles, and has the same pools, only they do 

 not fish so well from this side ; it ends alcove Potarch Bridge, both 

 sides of the Bridge Pool belonging to Ballogie. Continuing down on 

 the left bank, Mr. Duncan Davidson's Sluie comes next, under a mile 

 in length ; it holds four fair casts, of which Strathseven is the best. 



Returning up stream, as Carlogie ends, on the right bank 

 Ballogie commences, both reaches belonging to Mr. W. E. Nicol, 

 the former let for some years past to Mr. J. C. Haslam, while Mr. 

 E. Drummond has held the latter for many years. Ballogie con- 

 tains some three miles of most beautiful angling and scenery, in 

 which there are a dozen good casts — the Three Gannets, Green 

 Banks, and Potarch Bridge Pool being the best. 



As Sluie ends on the left bank, there follows the fine stretch 

 of the Woodend water, with its house close on the river and at 

 the top of the beat. It belongs to Sir Thomas Burnett of Crathes, 

 and is always let, and extends down for some two miles until it 

 joins Cairnton just above the intake of the Aberdeen Waterworks. 

 This section has yielded many good fish, both in spring and autumn, 

 but there is some deep and rough wading in most of the nine or ten 

 pools in it — ]\Ioral, the Green Spout, Scobech, which are the best 

 pools, all requiring high trousers and a long line. 



Returning once more up stream, as Ballogie ends on the right 

 bank, there begins a property of the Crown, the Commonty, let 

 jointly to Mr. Farquharson, M.P., of Finzean, and Mr. W. E. Nicol, 

 and usually sublet by them. It is over two miles in length, and has 

 the same pools as Sluie and Woodend down to the top of Moral 

 on the right bank, where begins that famous section of Blackball 

 belonging to Mr. Hay, a magnificent reach of five miles, extending 

 to Banchory Bridge and having opposite to it part of Woodend 

 and the whole of Cairnton, Invercanny, Inchmarlo, and Kineskie. 

 As Woodend comes to a finish, the Cairnton and Invercanny 

 section commences at the Intake. This is one of the very best 

 bits of the Dee ; for, though not much over a mile in extent, no waders 

 are wanted, and the whole water is nearly a continuous succession 

 of pools, of which there are no less than twenty-two, the Intake, 

 Ferrach, Glister, Rock Heid, Saut Fat, and Cannie Pool perhaps 

 being the best. This fine fishing, with its pretty riverside bungalow, 

 was held for many years by the late Mr. T. Turner Farley, and there 

 is sport to be had from the opening day to the end of the season, 

 while from this water came the heaviest fish of the river in 1899, 

 a forty-one -pounder, which fell a victim to the rod of LordPenrhyn, 

 who acquired a lease of Cairnton on the death of Mr. Turner Farley. 



Mr. Duncan Davidson's Inchmarlo comes next — a fine mile 

 of water and seven good long pools, so that it is nearly all fishing, 

 and no waders are wanted. The lower pool, called the Roe Spot, 

 is the best on the beat, but only fishes well on the Inchmarlo part 

 when the water is low. Unfortunately, the march between this 

 and the Kineskie water which follows comes in the very middle of 

 the pool, and as in high water the lower part is the best, the tenant 



