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LOCH-FISHING 



Little Loch Beg 



There is something mysterious in loch-fishing, in 

 the tastes and habits of the fish which inhabit the 

 innumerable lakes and tarns of Scotland. It is not 

 always easy to account either for their presence 

 or their absence, for their numbers or scarcity, 

 their eagerness to take or their ' dourness.' For 

 example, there is Loch Borlan, close to the well- 

 known little inn of Alt-na-geal-gach in Sutherland. 

 Unless that piece of water is greatly changed, it is 

 simply full of fish of about a quarter of a pound, 

 which will rise at almost any time to almost any 

 fly. There is not much pleasure in catching such 

 tiny and eager trout, but in the season complacent 

 anglers capture and boast of their many dozens. 

 On the other hand, a year or two ago, a beginner 



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