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of Inchmarlo can only reach the hkehest part of the pool by coming 

 right to the march fence and fishing the longest hne he can get out 

 into the Kineskie water ; and it would save unpleasantness if a 

 post were put twenty-five yards above the march on the Inchmarlo 

 said, and below which the angler there should not come. 



With regard to this pool, I never could quite make out from 

 the natives what the real name is. I have called it Roe Spot 

 because it is a spawning place for autumn fish, but some call it 

 Rose Pot, Rose Spot, and the Roe's Pot, so those who fish Kineskie 

 can take their choice. The Whinnie Brae, the Bughts, Bahore, 

 and Sandy Havens are the remaining pools on this short but pretty 

 bit of water, which requires no wading, and from which I have had 

 as many as five good fish in a February day ; while from Sandy 

 Havens I managed to land a fish without a hook in it, for the fish 

 coming short missed his mark, and in turning got the line under 

 his pectoral fin, and the hook catching in it, a loop was formed 

 round the fin, which held just as tightly as any barb. Both Kineskie, 

 which belongs to Sir Thomas Burnett, and Inchmarlo are let each 

 season, and generally divided into spring and autumn lets. 



We have now arrived at Banchory Bridge, and let it not be 

 forgotten that from Moral, opposite Woodend, the Blackball 

 stretch has the angling of all the pools mentioned in the lower 

 Woodend, the Cairnton, the Inchmarlo, and the Kineskie sections. 

 If Mr. Hay is away during the spring, he at times lets some of the 

 angling in this fine reach ; and, excepting in very low water, the 

 anglers opposite do not interfere with each other, for at that time 

 of year the river is usually so big that the rods on each side have 

 perforce to keep themselves to themselves. 



Immediately below Banchory Bridge comes the short reach 

 of Banchory Lodge, having Riverstone opposite — just one long 

 pool of a few hundred yards. Next, on the left bank, comes Sir 

 Thomas Burnett's Crathes water, which commences just below 

 Banchory station, and goes to about half a mile below Durris 

 Bridge, a distance of five miles, in which there are many splendid 

 casts, especially in the autumn, although I have had some fair 

 days in the spring, and in April 1884 I had five fish from the upper 

 Crathes water, and in 1885 the score of Kineskie and upper Crathes 

 to the end of July was 104 salmon, 34 grilse, and 13 sea trout. 



On the right bank below Riverstone comes Invery, with some 

 fine pools, running opposite Crathes. It goes down for nearly two 

 miles to the tail of the Floating Bank, which does not mean that 

 the bank is afloat, but that from this bank it was the custom in 

 days of the Dee rafts to float the felled timber. 



At the end of Invery comes Mr. Baird's Upper Durris water, 

 which begins at Birkenbad and goes down fuUy five miles, and is 

 divided into two beats, one ending a httle below Crathes Bridge 

 at the Green Bank, and the other running down to just above Park 

 Bridge and opposite the Park water of Mr. Penny, with the House 

 Pool about half-way down the beat. Both beats are fine stretches 



