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no District Board for the Clyde, Leven, and Eckaig. There is a waterfall 
on the Corrente Burn — one of the best spawning burns on Loch Eck side. 
There is much good spawning ground above the Fall which should be 
opened up by blasting. 
Birnam The salmon fishings connected with the Birnam Hotel are said to have 
Hotel. increased in 1891. 59 salmon were caught by anglers, the heaviest 
weighing 40 lbs.; also 6 sea-trout and 110 yellow trout. The main 
take of salmon is said to be in January, February, and October. 
The best month for yellow trout is April. Grilse and sea-trout begin to 
run about the end of April. 
Danger of It will be seen from the above answers that several of the hotel- 
Over-fishing. keepers are putting themselves to considerable trouble and expense, in 
artificially stocking the waters attached to their hotels, in order to 
supply the loss occasioned by the great number of fish killed by anglers 
during the fishing season. But the majority of them do not take this 
wise and necessary precaution ; and it would be well for them to re- 
member that, except in rare and peculiar instances, where there are large 
and deep lochs, such as Loch Laoghal and Loch Craggie, near Tongue 
Hotel, over fishing and free fishing, without any attempt to supply the 
annual destruction, must inevitably end in bad fishing or in none at all. 
It ought to be mentioned that all the District Boards and all the hotel- 
keepers who have replied to the printed queries, are, w 7 ith scarcely an 
exception, in favour of giving to District Boards, or to the Fishery Board 
for Scotland, compulsory powers, under certain conditions and restrictions, 
to open up the natural obstructions on the salmon rivers of Scotland. 
The Fishery Board for Scotland, 
Edinburgh, 1st March 1892. 
