CH. Ix.] TRAILING FOR SALMO FEROX. 119 
from the river, and some three miles above Loch 
Garry, kept by Mr Robinson, a worthy man, who, 
as well as his wife, does all that he can to promote 
the comfort of his guests, and told me “he liked 
to see gentlemen have their sport satisfactory and 
peaceable.” It was somewhat too late in the year, 
we were told, for much sport to be expected, so 
far as the Lake Trout were concerned; but under 
the auspices of John Cameron, whom we had 
brought with us from Invergarry—a very handy 
and decent fellow, and withal so fond of fishing 
that he has earned for himself the soubriquet of 
“The Cormorant”—we determined to have a trial 
at all events. We accordingly set to work trailing 
in the lochs (using simple spinning-tackle like that 
described in page 9 et seg.) witha parr or small trout 
for bait, and having a line (about thirty or forty 
yards) out on either side of the stern, whilst the 
boat was rowed slowly up and down over the most 
likely parts of the water. It seemed at first that 
the fears which had been expressed with refer- 
ence to the lateness of the season were likely to 
prove correct, for during the first two days the 
result of our trailing was only some four or five 
dozen Brown Trout, running from about a quarter 
of a pound to a pound and a half. As this was 
