CH. VI.] SALMON AND SEA TROUT. 87 
The heads of those Sea-lochs which form the 
embouchures of favourite Salmon-rivers, often 
become the temporary resting-places of Salmon and 
Sea Trout, which are not unfrequently weather- 
bound there for weeks together, being prevented 
by want of water from ascending the river for 
which they were making. The fish meanwhile 
continuing to flock in, such a loch, after a long 
spell of dry weather, sometimes swarms with them 
in a manner scarcely credible. I know of one, 
the precise locality of which I trust I shall be 
forgiven for not pointing out,— 
“There is a stream, I name not its name, lest itinerant 
Tourist 
“Hunt it and make it a lion, and get it at last into 
guide-books.’ 
(Clough’s “ Bothie.”) 
where, under such circumstances, I have seen the 
Salmon and Sea Trout congregated in fabulous 
quantities. Some idea of their numbers may be 
gathered from the fact that in the month of July, 
when they throw themselves out of the water more 
than they do later in the season, I several times 
tried whether I could count ten between the 
appearance of any two fish, and on every occasion 
was interrupted before I could get to the “ten” 
