of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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miles — there are no fewer than twenty-seven fine angling pools. 

 In fact, this part of the Minnock is a perfect model of what a 

 small salmon river should be. 



Bargrennan Linn, on the upper waters of the Cree, also 

 requires attention. There are 12 miles of water above it, with 

 much valuable spawning ground. But the access to this is at pre- 

 sent very much interrupted by the height and steepness of the 

 rocks at the linn. The rocks and pool on the left bank of the 

 river offer great facilities for poachers, and would require constant 

 watching. The pool is long, deep, and narrow, walled in on each 

 side and at the head by perpendicular rocks from 12 to 15 feet 

 high. A better place, in the latter part of the season, for ' snig- 

 ' gling/ or, as it is termed in England, ' strokehauling,' could not be 

 imagined. When I inspected the pool in August last, it was full 

 of fish, and I saw six or eight grilse trying to ascend the rock at 

 the head, and, of course, falling back, baffled, into the pool. On the 

 right bank of the river, however, an attempt has been made, with 

 some degree of success, to blast a channel in the rocks, which have 

 there a pretty gradual slope, so as to permit the ascent of fish. 

 But near the bottom of the pass, the channel is too narrow, and 

 should be widened ; and the uppermost step should also be 

 blasted, so as to give a resting-pool between it and the step imme- 

 diately below. It might be advisable for the Cree District Board 

 to consider whether it would not be desirable to place a perma- 

 nent heck, similar to that used at the intake of mill-lades, at a 

 narrow point below the deep linn on the left bank, which I pointed 

 out to the watcher, so as to prevent salmon and grilse from going 

 up to the foot of the inaccessible perpendicular rock at the head 

 of the linn on the left bank, and turn them towards the channel 

 on the right bank, by which they may be able to ascend to the 

 upper waters in flooded states of the river. 



The District Board of the Cree has been in existence for only 

 three years. The following abstract of accounts will show the 

 receipts, expenditure, and assessment during that period : — 



Abstkact of Accounts of Cree District Board for three years ending 

 Whitsunday 1883. 



1881. Beceipts — 

 Assessment on rental of 



£516, 10s., at 2s. 6d. per 

 £, - - - -£64 11 



1882. Assessment on rental of 

 £522, 2s., at 2s. 6d. per 

 £, - -£65 5 3 



Voluntary con- 

 tributions, - 22 10 0 

 Interest on 



bank account, 0 4 10 



1881. Expenditure, - - £48 4 7 



1882. Do. - - 83 17 6 



1883. Do. - - 54 18 6 



Balance at Credit of Board, 11 3 



£198 4 3 



0 1 



1883. Assessment on 

 rental of 

 £532, Is. 8d., 

 at Is. per £, £26 12 1 

 Voluntary con- 

 tributions, - 10 0 0 

 [Fines, - - 8 16 0 

 Interest on 



bank account, 0 4 10 



45 12 11 



£198 4 3 

 M 



