2o6 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



are sporting little fellows, somewhat light in weight in comparison 

 with their length, but nevertheless very free risers. No waders 

 are wanted ; a stout trout rod, or a hght grilse one, will easily 

 cover the water. The favourite flies are the Doctors, Jock Scot, 

 thunder and Lightning, and Popham, and the more sparely they 

 are dressed the more effective they will be. Number 2/0 is a very 

 big water size, and from this down to the smallest double hooks 

 may be used, according to the height of the river. 



Mr. Hedley F. Norris, the popular Honorary Librarian of the 

 Fly Fishers' Club, in the Haymarket, has been a very successful 

 angler on this river, for on more than one occasion he has had three 

 lish m the day, chiefly with an odd-lookmg fly which has no name, 

 but is dressed as follows, on a hook an mch long, and is also a 

 capital sea trout fly when dressed quite smaU : — 



Tag. Silver twist, orange floss ; tail, fibres of G. P. tippet and 

 rump feather. 



Body. Flat silver tinsel, ribbed with oval silver ; hackle, 

 Dorking or silvery dun, backed with a turn of summer duck. 



Wing. Tippet fibres vefled by mixed ones of heron and bittern, 

 two short slips of wood duck ; horns of blue macaw. 



The two best catches are the Wood Pool, some two miles from 

 the mouth, and Saliscraig, a mile higher up. 



Sea trout take small salmon flies and a silver-bodied Zulu, 

 \\hile there is also an Ai fly of Farlow's for which I cannot find a 

 name, but something of the Childers type, and dressed as foUows : — 



Tag. Light blue floss. 



Tail. Small topping. 



Body. Yellow floss with fine gold tinsel. 



Hackle. Gallina. 



Wing. Sprigs of tippet vefled by brov,n maUard. 



Horns. Blue macaw. 



The river belongs to Mr. BaiUie of Dochlour ; and though 

 the mouth of it is not at all hard netted by the lessee of the nets, 

 the Skye poachers are continually at work on it, and to their 

 depredations, added to those of the crews of various 3'achts, do the 

 natives attribute the great diminution in the numbers of the sea 

 trout, though, personally, I thmk the bag-nets are the chief culprits. 



The best months are August and September, and visitors at 

 the Glenelg Hotel are entitled to fish the whole river free of charge. 



A little more than a mile to the south of the Glenelg another stream 

 of much the same size and character — the Glenbeg — falls into the 

 sea. It also belongs to Mr. Bafllie of Dochfour, and can sometimes 

 be fished by visitors at the Glenelg Hotel if not let with the shootings. 



