LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
CURIOSITIES OF TROUT-FISHING.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] -SIn,—As a member of one of the angling clubs competing on Loch Leven, I can corroborate your article on the " Curiosities of Trout-Fishing." From my experience I know that the reports which appear in the daily newspapers with regard to the " takes " on that notable loch are very misleading, inasmuch us the clubs, as a rule, are restricted to fly-fishing, whereas the day upon which they may compete may be most unfavourable for that method, and very favourable for the minnow troll. You might have added in your article that some of "Colonel Jones's" thirty trout were caught with the artless phantom, and not by legitimate angling at all. As, for example, I was a competitor at a recent gathering of the Stirling Club, when the first prize was taken by a gentleman who caught two trout, weighing under two pounds. A few of the other members caught one trout each, and many arrived at the pier "clean." I had two friends from England fishing the loch the same day. Finding that it was no good fishing with fly, they put on the murderous minnow tackle. The result was that in the course of eight hours, they caught thirty-seven trout, weighing thirty- five pounds. The report of the day's fishing on the loch -appearing in the daily journals made no mention of the different methods of fishing, and put the whole of the thirty- five-pound take in the name of one of my two friends. Probably, I may add, each of the two boatmen had a rod each all day, and anonymously contributed to the brilliant achieve- ment.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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