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Within living memory, and before the netting on the Tay and its 

 estuary became so deadly, many more fish ascended the Gany 

 and were taken by rods, nets, and leisters, and during that period 

 of plenty two rods took with the fly in one day no less than eleven 

 fish from a couple of pools in the Pass, while now it would require 

 a whole season's hard work to make up a like number. 



The chief pools below Blair AthoU are Shierglass, Essen, Dormie, 

 Auldclune, the Boat and Bridge Pools ; and then in the Pass the 

 best are the Soldier's Leap, Three Stones, Insh, Blackrock, and 

 Pulpit, while from Garry Bridge to the junction fish are seldom 

 got. 



From Loch Tay to the Tummel junction is some sixteen miles, 

 in which most of the pools are boated, although there are a few that 

 can be cast from the bank, and several that can be commanded by 

 using wading trousers. Most of the catches are fine, long, splendid- 

 looking places, ranging from one hundred to nearly three hundred 

 yards in length. Although none of them are of any account after 

 the end of May, it is indeed sad to relate that the take of the whole 

 of this sixteen miles of water, from the 15th of January to the end 

 of May, is under a hundred fish, or about six fish per mile, spread 

 over four and a half months ! 



Now to return to the Tay — to Kinnaird water on the right 

 bank and the Tummel junction on the left one. Here, on the left 

 bank, Easthaugh ends and the Duke of AthoU' s Dunkeld reach 

 commences and runs for seven miles to Dunkeld Bridge, with his 

 two miles of Kinnaird opposite, succeeded for a mile and a half 

 by the Dalguise property of Sir Tristram Tempest, when the Duke 

 again comes in and goes to Dunkeld Bridge. The whole of this 

 portion of the river yields a certain amount of sport both in spring 

 and autumn, and the take for the whole seven miles may be 

 estimated at a total of one hundred fish. 



The Birnam Hotel reach extends for a mile below Dunkeld on 

 the right bank, and then begins the Murthly Castle water, belonging 

 to Mr. Steuart-Fotheringham, going on this side for four miles and 

 on the opposite bank for one mile, when Mr. Murray's Stenton water 

 comes in for a short distance, and is succeeded by Sir Alexander 

 Muir Mackenzie's Delvine angling, running opposite to Murthly, as 

 well as to the whole of the Upper and Lower Kercock water. 



Then on both banks Lord Lansdowne's water of Meiklour 

 joins on and continues for a mile on the left bank and two on 

 the right. This is followed by the far-famed Stobhall reach of 

 five miles, having opposite to it on the right bank the shorter 

 but very good fishings of Ballathie, Taymount, Burnmouth, and 

 Stanley. 



As Stobhall ends on the left bank, the Earl of Mansfield's Scone 

 Palace water begins, and goes down some five miles to a little 

 below Perth Bridge, while opposite are Benchhl, Redgorton 

 (Battleby), Luncarty, Lower Redgorton, Bertha, Woody Isle, and 

 Inch. 



