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Appendices to Ninth Annual Report 
shaped like a cauldron or pot, whence the origin of the name. It is occasioned 
by the fall of the water over a rock that lies across the river ; the fall is not 
perpendicular, but is interrupted by three or four breaks. This romantic and 
well-known spot affords no little entertainment to the angler, as the salmon 
and trout from Loch Lomond, being frequently unable to force their way over 
the rock, which requires three or four great leaps quickly made, are detained in 
the linn and taken sometimes in great quantities. 
On the left bank, below Gartness, the Endrick is joined by three tribu- 
tary streams, the Blane, the Gatter Burn, and the Finnich, all of which are 
good trouting streams, and are occasionally ascended by salmon. I was 
informed that the trout in the Endrick itself are numerous, and run about 
four to the pound, though they are occasionally caught as heavy as two 
and three pounds. The village of Drymen, about 3 miles from Gartness 
Falls, where there is a pheasant-looking country inn, would be a good 
centre for trout fishing in the Endrick and its tributary streams. 
Answers to Mr Brown, wlio was formerly Secretary to the Loch Lomond Angling 
PrintedQueries Association, and who is the author of a book on the Mollusca of the Clyde, 
Loclf Toinond writes as follows about the take of fish in the Loch Lomond and Leven 
andtheLeven, district during 1890 : — 
by Mr Alfred . i , -, , . t t 
Brown. The netting season, he states, generally was a bad one, although he is unable 
to give the number of fish netted. With regard to the number of fish captured 
by the rod, he writes that about 50 salmon were taken chiefly in Loch Lomond, 
and from 6(X) t<j 700 sea trout. The heaviest salmon weighed 20| lbs., and the 
next heaviest 14j lbs. The close time was strictly observed. But there is no 
District Board for the Clyde and Leven, and the protection is of a very insuffi- 
cient character both as regards the estuary and the spawning beds. 
With reference to obstructions to the ascent of salmon in the rivers in 
the district, he mentions the thoroughly inefficient pass on the dam near 
the mouth of the Luss River, the falls on the Douglas and Fallocli, and 
those at Gnrtness on the Endrick ; and he ex{)resses his opinion that com- 
pulsory powers should be given to the Fi.shery Board for Scotland to open 
uj) such obstructions, subject to an appeal to the Sheriff on the point of 
compensation. 
The pollution in the Leven continues as bad as ever. 
Mr Brown states that last year he, for the first time, observed fish with 
the fungoid disease. 
The size, of the sea trout in Loch Lomond last year was remarkable. 
Mr Brown's own average was -3 lbs. per tish ; and on three occasions he had 
5 sea trout to his owu rod weighing 241 lbs., 23| lbs., and 19| lbs. 
There has been no such fishing for 12 years. 
Mr David B. MacGregor, Secretary to the Trout Preservation Associa- 
tion of Glasgow, gives the following interesting answers to the printed 
queries : — 
The Trout Preservation Association does not take any supervision of streams 
or lochs frequented by salmon, the object being for the proper protection of 
yellow trout during the spawning season, and for killing jjike in the various 
waters over which the control extends. These waters are — (1) Loch Ard, (2) 
Loch Chon, (3) Lochs Katrine and Achray, (4) tiead of Loch Lotnond ; and 
(5) the streams falling into these lochs. The efforts of the Association have re- 
sulted in the killing of a large number of pike and of increasing the number 
of trout in these waters. The Association is uj^held by voluntary subscrip- 
tions, a payment of ,£1, Is. per annum constituting meml)ership. 
Close Time. 
Those who observe the habits of yellow trout know (1) that nature provides 
the necessary close time for these fish, as they get into a state of torpor during 
winter, and will not take either fly or bait, while the Act 23 and 24 Vic, 1860, 
provides penalties for illegal fishing ; and (2) that the deadliest enemy of 
