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Here are the takes made on the whole loch since 1S70, and it 

 will be seen to what extraordinary fluctuations it is subject :— 



Year. 



1870 



I87I 



1872 



1873 

 IS74 



1875 



1876 



1877 



1878 

 1879 



1880 



I88I 

 I8S2 

 1883 

 IS84 

 1885 

 1886 

 1887 

 1888 



I 

 I 



Number of Salmon . 



460 

 114 

 293 

 779 

 253 

 913 

 476 

 869 

 851 

 356 

 331 

 347 

 139 

 4O1 

 240 

 398 

 379 

 227 

 378 



[■ Not proeurable, but not extraordinary. 



After 1890 the loch was opened on the 15th of January instead of 

 on the nth of February, when eighty-one salmon were caught in 

 the extended time, the total for 1891 being 325 fish, with an average 

 of 18 lb, From this date I am not able to give the total takes, 

 but the proprietor of the Killin Hotel has kindly furnished me 

 with those made from there, and if these numbers were doubled, 

 it would not be far out of the actual total of the whole loch. 



Vear. 



1892 

 1893 

 1894 



1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 



Takes from Killin Hotel 



Number of Salmon. 



140 

 221 

 132 

 124 

 116 

 192 

 118 

 136 



From the takes of these twenty-eight years it wUl be seen there 

 have only been four verj? big seasons, viz. those of 1873, 1875, 

 1877, and 1878, the total of the four showing 3412 fish, which 

 would give an average of forty-three fish per season to each of 

 the twenty boats fishing the loch. 



The other twenty-four years give a return of 7535 fish, or an 

 average of 314 per season, which gives each of the twenty boats 

 about sixteen fish apiece. The four bumper years were also very 

 good ones on the river Tay, while, oddly enough, 1880, a record 

 season on the river, was but an average one on the loch. During 



