CHAPTER L VII I 



THE IIOIDART 



A SMALL Inverness-shke stream, falling into the head of the salt- 

 water loch of the same name, and belonging entirely to Mr. R. 

 Stewart, whose pretty house of Kinloch-Moidart is close to the river 

 mouth. Rising in the head of the glen of the same name, the 

 Moidart, after a rocky run of five miles, enters the small Loch of 

 Lochans, hardly a mile in circumference, and, passing through, 

 has a further run of three miles to the sea, in which distance is 

 comprised all the salmon angling. 



In times of flood — and it is entirely a spate stream — salmon 

 and sea trout ascend to the loch, where, though the former are 

 seldom or never taken, good baskets of the latter are often made, 

 in which trout of from 3 to 4 lb. are not uncommon. 



Both stream and loch are strictly preserved, and are usually 

 let with the house and shootings of Kinloch-Moidart for July and 

 the following two or three months. It is a somewhat inaccessible 

 country, best got at by steamer from Oban to Salen, and then 

 posting about fourteen miles. 



No waders are wanted, and the flies for the i\Iorar are good 

 for this stream, which opens on the nth of February, although no 

 sport is to be had earlier than June. 



