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THE PISHING GAZETTE 
[June 17, 1893 
side, besides the following which form (also) the 
Castle Grant Water of tbe right bank, 65 miles 
in extent. Bridge Pool, the Lurig, Buin a’ Bord, 
Long Pool, Slope Tomish, the Slates, Bie’ Yalley, 
Uish-in-ou, Slopinech Krach, Slope Garrow, 
Sluggan dhu, Garrow Pool, Slope Chamnie, 
Upper Port, Pool na’ choisk, Cromdale Scream, 
Sturndaye, Pool Chroin, Pollowick, Dunbar’s Pool. 
Tulchan, b miles left bank, and Advie, 5 miles 
right bank (both Lady Seafield), fish Dellifure 
burn mouth. Pool Nouran, Buin Challan, Slope an 
rhoan, Dhu Pool, Stream of Dalvey, George’s 
Pool, Pool Chroam, Buin chruim. Rock Pool, 
Pool Charrie, Speanick, Tulchan Bridge, Burn 
of Tulchan, Straan Pool, Pool n’ cheisk. 
Lady Seafield’s fisheries on this part of 
Spey all put together extend to 15 miles of 
river, including both banks, and are for the most 
part let along with the lodges and shootings. 
A fine stretch, however, of the Castle Grant water 
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THE SPEY AT DEUMGASK. 
has this year been taken on by Mr. INIacdonald, of 
the Grant Arms, Grantown, in order to provide 
salmon and grilse angling, which his guests may 
have by arrangement. 
Farther up the river than the Dulnain Mouth 
Cast, which is at the mouth of the Dulnain—one of 
the Spey’s largest tributaries—neither salmon nor 
grilse angling is of much account at any season. 
About the best casts on the respective beats of 
Lady Seafield’s fifteen miles of river are : Dulnain 
Mouth, Little Stream, Tarrigmore, Church Stream, 
Pool-na Gower, Bridge Pool, Garrow Pool, Crom¬ 
dale Stream, Dunbar’s Pool, Dhu Pool, George’s 
Pool, Rock Pool. 
Fitcroy (Sir George McPherson Grant, Bart.), 
3f miles, left bank: Cragganmore, Back 0 ’ the 
Wood o’ Callender, Pollnacloich, Burn Mouth of 
Aoun, Balleneilen, Tail of A’en, Boonjarg, Mill, 
Rf-d Bank, Kiln, Boat, Craigroy, Pollnakeest, the 
Slabs, Pollarder. 
Ballindalloch (Sir George McPherson Grant, 
Bart.), miles, fishes the casts from the Tulchan 
and Advie boundary right down to and including 
the Kiln Pool. 
Fitcroy Water, right bank, 3| miles, contains 
the Boat Cast, Craigroy, Pollnakeest, the Slabs, 
Pollarder, Stony Island, Stream Pot, Sole, the 
Craig, Sleeach, Craig neech. Long Pool. Down^ 
to Pollarder it is the property of Sir Gei 
McPherson Grant, Bart.; of the rest Lord Elgin 
is proprietor. 
KnocTcando (Lady Seafield), left bank, 3^ miles, 
fishes from the other side the same casts as 
Pitcroy down from Stony Island, and the follow¬ 
ing other casts: Polleek, Island Rowry, Pool- 
vrenin, Craigsteel, Pool a voolin, ^Midstream, 
Green Bank. 
Laggan (Lady Seafield), 3 miles, left bank> 
Bellmoonick, Macgregor’s Ilaugh, Curlingstone,'- 
Gregee, Bridge Pool, Basin, Dornie, Gas Pool,'^ 
Dellchabble, and Dellbreck. J 
Carron (Loi’d Elgin), 4f miles, right bank, fishes. 
from that bank the same casts asj 
Knockando (from Polleek down¬ 
wards) and Laggan. 
Wester Elchies (Lady Seafield), 2_ ^ 
miles, left bank: Pool o’ Brock, Horse r. 
Hole, Pollachree, Dellagueel, Little 
Turn, Rhine, Polshooan, the Craig. 
Aberlonr Water, miles right bank, 
contains the same casts as Wester 
Elchies down to the Craig, and is ' 
the property of Lord Elgin. tj 
Aherlour Water (J. R. Findlay), left V 
bank, 1 mile, contains the Boat and] 
Campbell’s Pool, and Aherlour Water,"' 
right bank. If miles (J. R. Findlay),'; 
fishes the Boat, Campbell’s Pool, ! 
Breemy Isle, Miller’s, and the 
Tunnell. Mr. Findlay rents Lord 
Elgin's portion of the Aherlour' 
water. 
Easter Elchies (Lady Seafield), 2^ 
miles, left bank: Breemy Isle, Miller’s, ' 
the Tunnell, the Slabs, Doo’s Nest,"' 
Boat of Fiddich, Heathery Isle, the ^ 
Dip, Red Craig, Lady Howe, the ' 
Piles. 
Craigellachie Water (Alex. Edwards) 
one mile, right bank; the Slabs,-' 
Doo’s Nest, Boat of Fiddich. The 
fine new hotel at Craigellachie—very^' 
soon to be ready—will most likely i 
have connected with it the fishing on 
this section. 
Arndilly (Mrs. Stewart-Menzies), 2 
miles, right bank : Heathery Isle, thi 
Dip, Red Craig, Lady Howe, the Pile' 
Bulwark, Jock’s Tail, Gilmour, Strea: 
of Cobble Pot, the Soo, Long Pool. 
Arndilly (Lady Seafield), If mile; 
left bank, fishes from that bank th 
Arndilly casts of the other bank from 
the Bulwark downward. 
Seafield (Lady Seafield), 1^ miles, 
left bank, and Aikenway (Stewart 
Menzies) 1^ miles right bank, both 
fish Tam Mair’s Crook, Sandyhill, 
Carnegie, Green’s land, Greentrees,' 
Sourden, Haddock, Island. 
Delfiur (Lady Seafield), both banks, 
2^ miles: Holly Bush, Two Stones, 
Beaufort, Otter Hole, Back of Broom, 
Burn of Collie, Bridge Pool. 
Gordon Castle (Duke of Richmond 
and Gordon), both banks, ten miles, contains 
numerous other little casts in addition to the 
following large lot, every one of which yields^ 
S])lendidly in autumn: Sandy, Couperee, Cairiit_ 
Stream,Twenty-pounds Pool,Turn, Rock, Altdarg 
Lennox Water, Green Bank, Grilse, Dipple, Uppe 
Bulwark, Bridge, Lower Bulwark, Quarry, CumI 
berland’s Ford, Stynie, Braehead, Long Pool, 
Essel, Railway Arch, the Rake. 
In the twenty miles of river between the 
TuHhan and Advie stretches and the Duke of 
Richmond’s fishery, probably the best pools and 
casts on the several fisheries, beginning with 
the Pitcroy section and going downward, are 
Boonjarg, the Mill, Red Bank, Boat, Craigroy, 
Pollarder, Polleek, Craigsteel, Dellmoonick, 
Gregee, Bridge Pool, Dellchabble, Pool O’Brock 
Horse Pool, Pollachree, the Boat, Campbellsf 
Breemy Isle, the Tunnell, the Slabs, Boat c 
Fiddich, the Dip, Lady Howe, Bulwark, Jock’ 
Tail, Gilmour, Sandyhill, Greentrees, Sourdeni 
Holly Bush, Two Stones, IBack of Broom. 
THE SPEY. 
ITS POSITION, AND ROD SALMON 
FISHERIES. 
Bv W. Mikdoch. 
As a salmon river the Spey is naturally a 
magnificent one, possessing itself and its tribu¬ 
taries along with it extraordinary reproductive 
resources and angling possibilities. No Scottish 
river in its catchment area contains better or 
more extensive spawning grounds, and certainly 
not one exhibits continuously for forty or fifty 
miles a nicer variety of water, or of water so 
admirably suited for angling at all seasons for the 
migratory Salmonidce. But, alas, the Spey is not 
what it should be—no, nor anything like it. The 
whole season for netting throughout, its angling 
possibilities are given no chance, consequently in 
the breeding season there are few 
grilse, or salmon of the spring and 
summer migrations—those fish that 
push farthest inland — forward to 
occupy the great ranges of spawning 
grounds of the upper waters and far 
inland tributaries. But for the fright¬ 
ful racking it gets by reason of the 
netting being so fiercely and con¬ 
stantly plied, both in itself and on its 
coast line, there is absolute warrant 
for saying that for angling results and 
yield of fish to the nets the Spey would 
from year to year be foremost of all 
the rivers of Scotland. The Duke of 
Richmond and Gordon practically 
farms the whole fishery, since hetake.«, 
during the netting season, to himself 
the whole of the fish caught on the 
coast, and almost every one that 
enters the river. The other pro¬ 
prietors whose interests are nearest 
and dearest—and certainly not small 
■—are, in my opinion, more blamable 
than his Grace for the state of matters 
that exists. If ever the river is to 
be improved for angling to an extent 
worthy of it, and so made productive 
of salmon in proportion, it is clearly 
the duty of the upper proprietors, and 
not of his Grace, to first move in the 
matter. Were the whole Spey fishery 
j udiciously managed with a due regard 
for both the angling and the netting 
interests, nothing natural, so far as I 
can see,.would prevent the angling in 
spring and summer along most of the 
best of the river from being as excel¬ 
lent in respect of place and season as 
it is in autumn on some lower lengths 
and on the Duke’s own fishery, which 
from the beginning of September to 
the middle of October is, by a con¬ 
siderable way, the most productive 
rod fishery in Scotland. 
The Spey is only fairish as a front¬ 
ing river, but a large number of its 
tributaries are very good. The lower 
fifteen or twenty miles of river possess 
beautiful runs and pebbly shallows, 
which in spring and autumn are 
quite famous for finnock or whitling 
angling. Sea-trout also if given the 
chance, by spates, of getting forward, afford in 
these same stretches splendid sport during the 
summer months. 
Between the Lochindorb stretch and the sea, 
there are almost two hundred named salmon 
casts and pools of which, in this forty-five miles 
of river, the principal (pretty much in order 
,g ing seaward) are:— Lochindorb (Lady Seafield), 
25 miles in extent, left bank; Dulmain mouth, 
Fool Christie, Saddlestone, Struanach, Little 
Stream, Tarrigmore, Craggan stripe. 
Revack (Lady Seafield), 3i miles, has from the 
right bank the same casts as Lochindorb, and 
also the following opposite the Castle Grant 
section of the left bank: Little Sand, Church 
Stream, Clachan - leish, Pool-Achloich, Buin 
Yarran, Pool-na-Gower, Slope Andra, Slope 
Hamish, Clach - na - Stroon, Clachan Uran, 
Buin’uan, Big Stream. 
The Castle Grant Water (Lady Seafield), 
7.\ miles, left bank, includes the Revack casts 
from the Lochindorb boundary on the opposite 
