Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: stronghold, who, pretending friendship, got the Marquis of Montrose betrayed into his Castle, after his defeat at Corbiesdale, near Invercar- ron, in 1650, and then delivered him up to his enemies. Not far from Ardvreck Castle, and also on the shores of Loch Assynt, stands the ruins of CaldaHouse, a more modern residence, built by the Mackenzies who succeeded the Macleods as lairds of Assynt. It was destroyed by fire about a hundred and thirty years ago, and nothing but the bare walls now remain. Loch Awe, a small loch about a mile long, lying at the foot of Canisp, four miles from Inchnadamph, is by far the best trouting loch in the vicinity of the inn. It is close to the high road from Inchnadamph to Altnakeal- gach, so that the angler can either drive or walk to it; or if he prefers it, he may fish up the Loanan, which connects Loch Awe and Loch Assynt, and which, in the latter part of the season, contains grilse and sea-trout. The best pools are at and above a wooden bridge over the Loanan rather more than half-way to Loch Awe. On the left of the road leading to Loch Awe there is a stupendous ridge H of limestone rock extending for a mile and a half. The precipices are more than 200 feet in height, and are, in places, mantled with ivy. Loch Awe contains several wooded islands, and is a shallow weedy loch, where trolling is almost impossible; but the trout take the fly so freely that this is not of much consequence. We found the
soldier palmer a very deadly fly on this loch. The following is a return of seven days’ fishing on Loch Awe at different times in June and July, several of the days being by no means favourable ones: fifty-one trout, three weighing a pound each; thirty-six trout; thirty-one trout; sixty-six trout, weighing twenty pounds; fifty-five trout, we…
