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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt:...to the Strath-Bran lochs, the angler, a short way from the bridge at Grugie, where there is a public-ljouse, comes, pursuing his way up the Conan, to Loch Cullen. The trout in this sheet of water are some of them of great size; many, however, are under twelve inches in length, but there are few very small ones. I killed one there weighing three pounds, on the same day that I caught the large one mentioned above, besides several others. But I did not handle the rod with much enthusiasm or for any length of time, as it was then getting late and no breeze on the water; besides, I was over-content with what I had already taken. The Cullen trout, judging from the specimens captured by myself, wants both beauty of form as well as fleshy fairness. My largest fish, although not half the heaviness, was almost of the same length as the one previously alluded to from the hill-loch, and its head fully three times the size. The smaller ones, from a pound weight and downwards, were better proportioned, but by no means beautiful in appearance. Achnanault Loch lies immediately above Cullen, and is somewhat of the same description, although I have heard it asserted that the trout therein are of larger size and less plentiful in number, pike being very abundant. The cursory trial I took of it shewed in a manner the reverse; for of the two fish I captured there in the course of ten minutes, both were smaller than any I caught in the other loch. This, however, arose possibly from accident; indeed, I have generally remarked, when two lakes are near each other and joined by a run of water, that the uppermost contains the larger fish. Conan above Achnanault, where there is an excellent inn, runs over a channelly bottom, favourable to the spawning of trout, which, however, are not...