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SUPPLEMENT TO THE PISHING GAZETTE 
[April 29, 1893 
for the heaviest trout, with one of 21b. 8Joz. 
The Perthshire Club on Tuesday was the most 
successful. Eleven members reported a total 
capture of fifty-seven trout, 5.51b. toz. Three of the 
prizetakers were : First, Mr. G. Pople, ten trout, 
81b. loz.; second, Mr. G. Ritchie, seven trout, 71b. 12oz.; 
third. Mr. .T. Beattie, eight trout, 71b. lljoz. Amongst 
the private parties out during the week were the fol¬ 
lowing : Mr. Kelt and Mr. J. Dick, nineteen tront, 
201b. toz. ; Mr. A. Ore, Stewarton, thirteen trout, 
101b. 8oz. ; Mr. Galloway, Edinburgh, twelve trout, 
121b. 8oz.; Provost Griffiths, Falkirk, fifteen trout, 
181b. ; Bailie Richmond, Glasgow, sixteen trout, 161b. ; 
Mr. Russell, Glasgow, thirteen trout, 131b. ; Mr. and 
Master Sivright, North Oueensferry, eleven trout, 101b. ; 
Mr. Nisbet, London, sixteen trout, 181b. Dr. Brunton, 
London, has also arrived here for a few days sport on 
the loch. The pike spawning season is now over, and 
the stake nets have been removed. The season has been 
more successful than last year. Perch are more plentiful 
in the loch than they have been for a number of years 
past.— Robt. B. Laing. 
Iiocli Maree, Ross-shire. —The Rev. A. Harland 
caught a salmon of lOJlb. the other day, and subse¬ 
quently one of SJlb., on the River Ewe. The river is 
very low at present.—T. H. 
Loch Migdale (Bonarbridge, N.B.l. —Mr. John 
McPherson continues to make nice baskets of well- 
conditioned trout. On Friday last he was out for a few 
hours and landed fourteen, which averaged- .Vlb. each. 
Ele also made a fair basket on Monday this week.—McB. 
Loch Tay, Perthshire (Eillia Hotel).— On the 
22nd inst., Mr. Kendrew, one salmon, 181b. ; 26th, Mr. 
Woodall, one salmon, 171b.—H. Maiset. 
Naver (Bettyhill, N.B —The river has for some 
time back been so very low that it is surprising any fish 
at all have been got, especially when the bright sunshine 
prevailing is taken into account. On the 14th, Mr. Gill, 
Syre Lodge, landed a 12-pounder, and Mr. Griffiths three 
of 71b., 81b., and 161b. On 15th. Mr. Gill, fishing Beat 
No. 1, caught six salmon, ranging from 61b. to 101b. On 
17th, Colonel Frier, Dalvina Lodge, had an 81b. salmon 
on Beat No. 1; Mr. Gill, one of 91b. on No. 2; and Mr. 
Griffiths two, of 131b. and 81b., on No. 3. On the 18th 
Colonel Frier grassed three salmon, 91b., 81b., and 71b. 
On the 20th, Mr. J. Earle, Drax Skelpick Lodge, landed 
two of 13Jlb. and 131b. Several anglers have arrived at 
Skelpick and Syre Lodges. With a spate good sport 
might be looked tor.—McB. 
Shin (Inveran, N.B.) —Taking the drought and 
bright sunshine into account, the sport obtained by the 
lessees of the lower beats has been very good. Mrs. 
Farrer, Mr. FArrer, Mr. Lake, and Mr. Jackson have 
landed a number of salmon running up to 211b. since the 
beginning of the month. A spate is now much needed.— 
McB. 
South, of Scotland. —All our rivers are down again 
to below their summer level. The slight rise in the 
waters with the rain of last week is not noticeable now. 
Angling is still being ijrosecuted for yellow trout, but 
the sport is miserable everywhere in the district. In 
the Solway there has been a better show of sea-trout in 
the nets, but the spring salmon fishing in the Firth has 
been wretchedly poor—the worst for thirty years, it is said. 
The tributaries of the chief rivers are well nigh dried 
up, I hear, and nothing has been done for some time 
past.— The Annan. —Sport on this river is at a stand¬ 
still. Beyond the landing of a few small yellow tront, 
there has practically been nothing done all along the 
river. Last week, after the despatch of ray weekly 
notes, Mr. John Rae, Bridge Place, landed a fine new 
run sea-tront in the lower tidal reaches. The trout, 
which weighed fully 21b., was caught with the 
brandling worm; the same angler having landed 
three other sea trout, all new-run fish. Friday was a 
good day, and, with a south-west wind,afew nice yellow 
tin .trout were caught in the tidal waters. Mr. John 
Laurie, inspector, had the best basket, over twenty in 
all. Mr. McGiverin had a few, and Mr. Marr a brace, 
but none of the trout weighed up to .Ub. In the Hoddom 
Castle water the keepers have been doing nothing. Mr. 
Charles Inglis, of the Commercial, Ecclefechan, has been 
out on this water on several occasions, and he has 
generally had about half a dozen yellow trout, some up 
to ilb. each. On the Murraythwaite, Castlemilk, 
Dormont, and higher waters very little has been done.— 
The Nith. —My correspondents report that nothing has 
been done beyond the killing of a few small brown tront 
on the Duke's water near Thornhill. In the lower waters 
anglers have been fishing eels this week with worm bait, 
and a few biv ones have been caught I hear.— The 
Galloway Waters. —The Kircudbrightshire Dee, 
the Galloway Fleet and Urr, are below their summer 
level. A good number have laid past their rods and tackle 
until a flood comes. —Ayrshire Lochs. —The dry 
weather appears not to interfere with the sport on 
the Ayrshire lochs. During the past week several good 
baskets of yellow trout have heen secured on Loch 
Doon, with fly, when the conditions were favourable for 
loch fishing—viz., a dull day with a westerly breeze. 
Loch Finlas has also done fairly well on odd days. The 
trout are larger on the latter loch, and afford fairly 
decent sport when they are right on the rise. They are 
game fish for their size, and fight well up to the side of 
the boat. The river reports are a blank everywhere in 
the Ayrshire district.— Heatherbell. 
Spey (Morayshire).— In the salmon netting on the 
coast, salmon angling on the Spey is proving to be the 
worst remembered tor very many years, and unless the 
upper waters—which as a rule fish well in April or 
M:.y—nrcve prcductive before the end of May, the 
season up to then will be one to be remembered for its 
miserable sport. The river has been so low for such a 
lengthened period that it is a sheer impossibility 
almost for any new run fish to pass the many 
miles of netting. The proprietors, one cannot help 
thinking, show a considerable lack of enterprise 
in taekling this matter of over-netting, and that if 
they had taken the matter in hand with the same 
amount of determination as they did to prove 
their rights over the public re trout fishing, the pro¬ 
bability is that some arrangement would have been 
come to with the Duke of Richmond by this time. 
Under prevailing angling conditions, the only fish that 
as a rule get past the nets, other than when the nets are 
off, are those which may be netted along with a lot of 
kelts while sweeping a pool, when a clean one may 
escape at such a time. Along the valley of the Spey 
rain fell heavily, accompanied on Thursday with 
thunder, which caused the w-ater to rise a foot 
or two, but, from reports to hand, angling has 
not benefited to any appreciable extent although 
vegetation has had new life imparted to it. The rise of 
water was, however, sufficient to cause a considerable 
number of kelts to clear out, in many cases where they 
had been pool bonnd. Last week a salmon or two were 
killed some seventy miles up the river, a good augury 
for the month of May on these far up reaches. On the 
upper section of the Aberlour House water, on Tues¬ 
day, Mr. Judge killed one of 161b.; on Wednesday, Mr. 
Craich, gamekeeper, Buchromb, one of 81b.; and on 
Thursday, Mr. Charles Moxton, Edinburgh, one of 
7.)lb. ; while on the same day, from the water at Ban- 
daleith, Mr. Thorn, London, had one, weighing 71b. On 
Monday, Mrs. Grant, of Glengrant, grassed from the 
Craigellachie water, a beauty of 141b., and from the 
Aikenway water, belonging to Mr. Stewart-Menzies, of 
Culdares, Lord Garach landed one of 111b., and on 
Tuesday another of lljlb. From the Kirdels water, on 
Monday, Mr. C. M. P. Burn, Pitcroy Lodge, landed a 
small one of 51b., and on Wednesday, from Laggan 
water. Col. Smith’s fisherman landed one of 71b. Good 
baskets of trout are being got on the Lossie with the 
bait in the mornings and evenings, before the sunshine 
becomes too bright. An extraordinary catch of sea 
trout is reported from Lossiemouth, as having been 
caught with the rod there on this day week by Mr. D. 
West, an artist, staying at the Station Hotel. The 
basket contained sixty-one sea tront, weighing on an 
average three-quarters of a pound. Such a thing is not 
improbable when a shoal of these are crossing the bar 
and making for fresh water. The March Brown has 
now put in an appearance. A small head of fish seem 
to have got past the nets while off on Sunday, but they 
refuse to rise to the fly, owing to the water being so low 
and transparent. The water is as low as ever again, 
and, although clouds are hanging about, the “ glass ” 
shows no signs of a rainfall, so that prospects at present 
are anything but bright.—J. M. 
Tay (Perth,). —The river has got so low that angling 
is almost at a standstill, and, until rain comes, little or 
no sport will be got. Last week the Stobhall waters 
yielded four fish, and Mr. Bett had 7ilb. brown trout on 
the Dalguise water.— Tumhel : Mr. McNaughton, the 
keeper, killed a fish of 201b. on the Bonshird water on 
Monday, and one on Wednesday 181b. 
Thurso and Lochmore (Strathmore).— The river 
and loch are very low indeed, and the sport is poor with 
the salmon, so that anglers are taking to trout fishing 
a good deal. A spate is looked for daily, but in vain. 
The ground is “iron and the sky brass.” There is 
great need for a spate. There are plenty of fish in the 
bay.—A. H. 
Tweed and Teviot (Eelso). —The rain that fell 
last week did little or no good in any respect, so far as 
angling prospects were concerned, and sport on Tweed 
and Teviot is most unsatisfactory in a general sense. 
The rivers are getting loss daily, if such can be the case, 
and Waltonians are not in the best of humours—how 
can they r There has only been one good da 5-’8 rain for 
six weeks, so that will give the disciples of the rod and 
line a good idea of what the rivers are like for angling. 
Notwithstanding all the drawbacks of weather and 
water, a few nice baskets of trout are being got 
on both rivers, while, in one instance, we have a 
gentleman killing 601b. of trout on Tweed in 
four days. The Whitadder also seems to have 
yielded good sport to some anglers. On the whole, 
however, sport is disappointing, and until the rivers 
have a good scouring and cleansing matters will not 
mend. As to salmon angling, that is a thing of the 
past, and must remain so until the much needed and 
long looked for flood comes. At present there are very 
few fish in the rivers, and what are in are more or less 
affected with Sajirolegnia ferax. The best takes of trout 
—got on the Tweed, as a general rule—since my last 
have been baskets of from 31b. up to 5Jib. But in the 
Cornhill, Twizel, and Norham districts Professor Somer¬ 
ville has killed, so it is reported, 601b. in four days, 
angling with fly, the March Brown being the most suc¬ 
cessful. His heaviest basket for one day was a good 
one, 231b. On the Teviot takes range from about 21b. 
up to 61b., the average being about 3Jlb. ; occasionally, 
however, an extra heavy dish is got, but these are the rare 
exceptions. The weather is dry, mild, and bright- 
more like June than April—and with no appearance of 
rain.— Max wheel. 
Whitadder (Bllemford). —River low. Fly-fishing 
good from 8.30 a.m. till about 1 p.m. Plenty of creeper 
in the river. A few May flies have been seen on the 
warm days. During the past week (April 17 to 22), Mr. 
Stead has caught the following : Monday, 70 ; Tuesday, 
73; Wednesday, 33: Thursday, 81; Friday, 22; Satur¬ 
day, 49, making a great total of 358 trout for the six 
days. All but about 50 (which were caught with the 
creeper) having been taken with the fly. The total 
weight of the fish was just on 701b. Mr. G. Sayer, of 
Oxford, caught on Tuesday 51b., on Thursday 41b., and 
on Saturday 41b, If the present weather continues, the 
May-fly will be on the water quite three weeks earlier 
than usual.—R. J. Fenton, 
Ythan. — Sport with whitling in the Ythan is 
brighter than ever. Fish are plentiful, many of them 
over 11b. in weight, although the average is nearer Jib. 
The record basket of the season of 271b., made by 
Professor Dove Wilson the other day, was eclipsed on 
Friday by Mr. A. H. Douglas, Yorkshire (son of Bishop 
Douglas, Aberdeen), who landed forty-nine fish scaling 
321b. In four days fishing, including above basket, he 
had 121 trout weighing 821b. Among others fishing 
from the Udny Arms Hotel, who have been eminently 
successful, may be mentioned Mr. Duguid McComine, 
of Lynturk, Mr. Loelel, and others.—K. O. U. 
Irish Reports. 
Balliuderry. —The water is in fair form, but the 
weather is very unfavourable, being very bright, with 
north-easterly winds and frosty nights. During the 
past week light baskets of trout were killed by Mr. R. 
Campbell, Mr. J. Smythe, Joe Marshall, Willie Craw¬ 
ford, and others, on the Ardstrea section, and a few tront 
were killed by local men on the lower waters. 
Baun (Toome Bridge).— Despite my auspicious 
forecast for this week sport was not so good as I antici¬ 
pated. This was partly due to the very bright, cloudless 
weather, north-east winds, and frosty nights. The 
water is rather clear. I have some dozen baskets of 
trout to hand, killed on various parts of the river, but 
none above a brace, so I need not trouble with details 
—J. A. B. 
Blackvrater (Co. Tyrone).— Sport would be prime 
were it not for the glaringly bright weather. The water 
is in very good order. Last Thursday Mr. Skelton killed 
five trout, 51b., and lost several heavy ones. Mr. Wm. 
Douglas killed eight, and Mr. Fitzpatrick nine. On 
Friday the hest fish of the week was bagged by Mr. 
John Mills (it weighed 21b.), and killed six smaller fish. 
Plenty of rain would do good just now. 
Bundrowes. —The river is so low at present that 
fishing there with any hope of success is a sheer waste 
of time. 
Lough Currane (Waterville, Co. Eerry).— 
Sport continues poor. A few salmon have been had by 
Major Cresswell and Mr. Mason. Tront fishing has been 
below the average. Weather fine, but too bright for 
angling.— Thos. J. Denneht. 
Lough Melvin. —Owing to the unfavourable weather 
si^ort on Melvin was not up to the average. However, 
a few fish were taken by General Dickens, two, I2Jlb. 
111b., and some trout (Salmo ferox), amongst them one 
of 12Jlb.; Col. Wilson one salmon 81b., Mr. E. G. 
Bowden one of 81b., Capt. Sclater one of 151b., Mr. T. 
Johnson one of 91b., Mr. H. Liuch one of lljlb., Mr. G. 
Rogan one of 121b.—M. Rogan and Sons. 
Lough N eagh. —Since my last report there is a further 
reported improvement in trout netting, some heavy fish— 
10 -pounders—having been taken by the fishers on the 
Tyrone shores. Pollen netting is much about the 
average. Last Monday I saw a very nice bream, which 
had been netted at Araboe Point. It weighed fi^lb. 
The mouths of the rivers entering the lough give 
splendid coarse fishing in the months of June and Julv. 
—J.A. B. 
Mourne and Strule (Newtonstewart, co. 
Tyrone). — There has been a decided improvement 
in sport since last report. The 21st Mr. Witherow, 
stopping at the Abercorn Arms, killed 61b. trout, and 
the tollowing day Mr. Walworth, Capt. Marshland, Mr. 
Jillybrand, and Mr. Turner, all licglish anglers, arrived 
at the Abercorn Arras, and, after luncheon, went out 
and had light bags of trout. Same day Mr. Witherow, 
among others, killed a 21b. trout, and the following day 
he killed a nice basket, the heaviest of which weighed 
111b. On the 23rd Mr Witherow and Mr. Fulton bagged 
6 l'b trout, heaviest IJlb. (Mr. Fulton’s heaviest l.jlb.), 
and the following Monday the former angler killed a 
prime 31b. trout. 
Moy and Lakes Ballina. —Since last report sport 
has not improved, owing to March north winds and 
biught sunshine. We want rain badly to raise the river 
and loughs, as they are down to a very low level. On 
the 21st Capt. Jones had two nice trout, weighing 71b. 
and 3Jib. ; 24th. the same gentleman had two salmon, 
weighing 121b., 91b., and six trout weighing 61b. Trout 
fishers are doing fairly well considering the weather, 
and some nice baskets of fish are brought in daily.— 
Frank Hearns. 
Shannon and Lough Derg (Eillaloe). —Lake 
trout-fishers will be surprised and interested to learn 
that during the past week several fully matured green 
drake have been seen on Lough Derg, a thing never 
before heard of on the Shannon so early in the season. 
But then the weather has been burning hot, which will 
account for the early appearance of the bonnie fly. For 
the remainder of the present week and next week, I 
will closely watch events as they occur, lest, with a 
change to rain, a full “ rise ” might take place. In any 
case, we are sure to have an early season on the lake, 
but as I promised last week, I will keep you well in¬ 
formed on the matter. Considering the long drought, 
the river here at Killaloe has kept up amazingly well; 
it is in splendid fishing ferm this week, but of course 
