CHAPTER XIX.--SALMON ANGLING.

Salmon rivers--The Ewe--Cruives--The old cruive used for crossing the river--Roderick Campbell and an American merchant drowned--The new cruive--Gradual diminution of stock of salmon--Length of the Ewe--Pools on the east side--Pools on the other side--Runs of salmon and grilse--Kelts--Bull-trout--Sea-trout--Large salmon--Best flies--Dr Mackenzie's anecdote of Sir Humphrey Davy--John Bright--Odd incidents--Damaged fly--Successful fishing after a friend--Hooking a fish after losing another--Was it a rise?--Fish taking when line slack--Kelt caught twice--Holding on for five hours--Angler compared to the evil one--Water-bailiffs--John Glas--Sandy Urquhart--His loquacity--Fishing on the Ewe--Tailing salmon--Spiked gloves--Bags of salmon now and formerly--Singular mode of fishing by Sir Hector--Charms of the Ewe--Other salmon rivers in Gairloch 366