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THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



Side Duncrub goes down to the Dunning Burn, the best cast on it 

 and also on Upper DuppUn, the fish lying on both sides of the stream. 



A good many ladies have met mth considerable success casting 

 from the banks of this reach, one fair angler taking no less than five 

 in a day, while Miss Oliphant, a daughter of the late Colonel Ohphant 

 of Gask, was well kno\yn all along Strathearn for her skill with 

 the rod. The best day on this water that I have heard of was in 

 October 1891, when three rods had just a dozenfish, the heaviest 24 lb., 

 but in that exceptional year four or five a day were quite common. 



Here are the Gask and Duncrub captures to one rod only for 

 the following years : — 



There are a certain number of sea trout coming up in September, 

 for which the best flies are the Green and Teal and a yellow-bodied 

 one with March Brown wings and gold tinsel. 



The Upper Dupplin water is about a mile of both banks, and is 

 let with Dupplin Cottage. There are six good pools on it, of which 

 the Dunning Burn and the May Pool are the best, and from this 

 catch twelve fish in a day have been got. The take for the season 

 averages from twenty to thirty-five fish, usually of heavy weights. 



We now come to a stretch of water that is certainly one of the 

 best, if not the very best autumn fishing in Scotland, i-iz. the far- 

 famed Dupplin Reserved water, which commences at the Cruive 

 Dyke and goes down for about one and a quarter miles on both 

 banks, in which distance there are just a dozen fine casts. Immedi- 

 ately below the weir comes Back o' Dyke, followed in rapid succession 

 by Dick's, Lord Dupplin's, Stank, Jetties, Minister's, LordKinnoull's, 

 Wilkinson's Hole, Buchan Stream, Upper and Lower Buchan, and 

 Sauchie.i From these pools some of the largest scores on record 

 have been made, for when the water is right, from eight to twelve 

 fish a day are often taken. 



The late Lord Dupplm once had twenty-two fish in the day from 

 the two streams of Dick's and Dupplin. 



Mr. Brydges Willyams and Colonel Cornwall Legh, fishing 

 opposite each other, had in a short day twenty-five fish from these 

 same streams. Here, also, I had the luck to get the only forty- 

 pounder of my angling career, from the south bank of the tail of 

 Lord Dupplin's stream ; it took a small Blue Doctor of my own 



1 Those who know these parts of the Earn will have no difficulty in 

 recQC'nising the man in the boat as Irvine, the popular and well-known head 

 keeper at Dupplin. 



