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The Border Angler: I y/'ioma.o iv ^Jinu. THE BORDER ANGLER: I A GUIDE-BOOK TO rHE TWEED AND ITS TRIBUTARIES AND THE OTHER STREAMS COMMANDED BY THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY. • \l , SHILLING EDITION. EDINBURGH: •lOHN MENZIES, 2 HANOVER STREET. !; ; Let Ither anglers choose their aln, And ither waters tak the lead; 0' Hielan' streams we covet nane, But gie to us the bonny Tweed And gie to us the cheerfa' bum That steals into its valley fair; The streamlets that at ilka turn Sae saftly meet and mingle there. The lanesome Tela and the Lyne, And Manor wi' its mountain rills, And Etterick whose waters twine Wi' Yarrow frae the forest hills Gala too, and Teviot binght. And mony a stream o' playfu' speed Their kindred valleys a' unite Amang the braes o' bonnie Tweed. the Tweed! the bonnie Tweed 1 0' rivers it's the best: Angle here or angle there Troots are soomin' ilka where, Angle east or west. Thomas Tod Stoddart. CONTENTS. Pages CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY, 1-4 The Angler's location, page 1... Favourable position of Edinburgh, 2... Fraternization of the North British Railway with the various Border Streams, 3. ..Sketch of the Author's plan, ib. CHAPTER II. ANGLING ON THE BORDERS, . 5-45 Meatae, Romans, Monks, and Kelts, 5... Salmon-fishing, 7... Rapid decrease of the Fish and of the Rentals of the Fishings, 9, 10... The Tweed Fisheries Acts, 10- 13... Extent of kelt-killing in the Tweed, 15... Rod- fishing for Salmon with fly, worm, parr-tail, &c. 16-23 ...Habits of the Salmon, 19.. .His freaks when hooked, 24... Trout-fishing, 25... Fly, worm, creeper, and May- fly, 26-39... Stewart's new methods, 27, 36. ..Minnow and Roe fishing, 39-41... Forbidden Fish, 43-45. CHAPTER III. THE TWEED 46-99 Character of the River from source to mouth, 46-48... Mr. Stoddart's eulogium, 47.. .The Crook, 49.. .Hill- burns, 51... The Tala and the upper Tributaries, 52... Rachan Mill, Biggar-water, and Broughton, 53, 54... The Lyne and the Tarth, 56... Peebles and its neigh- ^ bourhood, 57.. ..Manor-water, 58... Eddleston- water, 59.. .The Peebles Anglers, 60... Innerleithen, 61. ..The Leithen and the Quair, 62...'' The Bush aboon Tra- quair,"62...Ashestiel and neighbourhood, 63.. .Tweed Trout-flies, 64... C addon- water and Clovenford, 65... Salmon-fishing..." The Nest," 65... their Album: Song VI THE BORt)ER ANGLER. /^/ *' ThoSaunion,'' 66...Scottat Ashestiel, 67...Anigljt's Leistering with the Ettrick Shepherd. ..the ducking in Gliddy's Weal, 68. ..Sir Walter at Abbotsford, 09... The coursing-match on Newark Hill, ib... Scott'-: last home-coming, an(lydeath, 71...Allan-water, 7o...Lard Somerville's Fishing, ib,..The Law of Trout-fishing, 74, 77... Melrose, 74-76.. .Dryburgh... St Boswell's ...John Younger, 78-81... Rutherford-water, 81... Du- cal restrictions on trout -fishing, and imitations there- , of by smaller fry, 83, 84...Makerstoun Trows. ..Rob Kerss and the unsocial Peer, 85. ..Floors, 86.. .Kelso, 87... Forest's rods and flies, 88...Sprouston Dub, 89... TheEdeu...Birgham-water,9()...Coldstream,91...Tlie Leet, 92.. .The Till, the Bowraont, and the Glen, 93... Millfield Plain. ..Tweedmill, 95...St. Cuthbert...Till- mouth Castle, 96...Norham Castle... Salmon traps, 97 ...Berwick, 98... Great haul of fish in July 1858, 99. CHAPTER IV. ETTRICK AND YARROW, . 100-291 The Forest, 100.. .Salmon and Trout-poaching, 101-103 ...Anglers' Protection Associations, 104...Englisli no- tion of sport, 105 ..The head of the Ettrick, 105... Timah...Rankleburn...Tushilaw, 106... Traditions of the Forest, 107. ..The Ettrick Shepherd, 108.. .His astonishing draught of fishes in tbeJVIeggat, 109, note ...Boston's " Fourfold State," 109... The Ettrick, from Tushilaw downwards, 109. ..Tibbie Shiels...her dis- tinguished guests, and kindly care of them. 111. ..St. Mary's Loch and tlie Loch o' the Lowes, 112, 123... Hints on Loch-fishing, 113. Pike-fishing, 1 14. .Perch- fishing, 118... LittleYarrow... The Meggat, 119... Loch- Skene, 121. ..Roads to St. Mary's, ib.... Scenes of old Ballads, 122...Dryhope Tower.. .The Yarrow, 125... Newark Castle....Bowhill, 126....Experiraents in breed- ing Salmon, 126, no««... Selkirk... Disputed dram at the battle of Philiphaugh, 128. > CHAPTER V. THE GALA AND THE LEADER, 130 44 Edinburgh fishers and city fast-days on the Gala, 130... The Trout amazed at the multitudinous invasion... The vast numbers annually caught in the Gala, 131 CONTENTS. Vll Pages Heriot-water, 132... Large Trout near Stow, 134... The Luggate.... Galashiels Poachers and Factory pollu- tions. 135... The Vale of Gala, 136...The Leader and its Feeders, 137...()ur"oldNobilitie," 140.. James Baillie of Lauder, 141...Carrolside-water...Earlston, 142 .. ! Thomas the Rhymer..." The Broom of the Cowden- knowes,"143...Sandyknowe...Smailholm Tower, 144. CHAP. VI. THE TEVIOT AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, 145-<i4 Fishing and drinking in the olden times, 145.. .Source of the Teviot, 147. ..The Allan.. .Borthwick-water... Branxholm Castle, 148... .Hawick ...The Slitrigg.... Stobbs Castle, 149...Minto Castle. ..Hawick Netters... The Rule, 150... Denholra... John Leyden, 151. ..The Ale. ..John Younger, 153-155.. .Ancrum Moor.. .The Jed, 155... The poet Thomson, and his angling sketch in " The Seasons," 156.. .Fishing among trees, 157... Jedburgh.. .its antiquity, 159.. .The Oxuam and the Kale, 160...Heaton-raill cauld,161-..Mr.Purves'skelt- killingi and Mr. Stoddart's monster eel, ib.... Pike and Perch in the Teviot, 163. CHAP. VII. THE WHITADDER & BLACKADDER, 165-86 These Berwickshire Twins unlike each other, 165. .Head of the Whitadder, ib...The Fasuey a stream in a state of nature, 166. ..Heather Trout, 167...Cranshaws, 168 ...Bothwell-burn.. ..Dye-water.. ..Watch-water, 169 .. Blacksmill-burn....Burn-fishing with dipping min- now, 170....Longformacus...Ellemford...Geordie Ha- milton. 17l...Geordie's angling feats... his migrations ...his rule of " chairge," 172-3... Fishing-inn charges ...decline of toddy- drinking. 173-4... Hints on re- freshing and washing, 175... Abbey St. Bathan's, 177... Dunse, 179... The Covenanters on Dunse-Law, ib,... John Duns Scotus and Jenny Geddes, ib....Chirnside, 180... David Hume at Ninewells, ib...Allanton, 181... The Blackadder, ib... Legend of Twinlaw-Cairns, 182 ...Straightening of water-courses, ib.. .Greenlaw, 183 ...The Protectionist system on the Blackadder, 184... The lower part of the Whitadder, 185... The Anacharis Alsinastrum, ib. Vlll THE BORDER ANGLER. Pag. CHAP. VIII. THE EYE, THE TYNE, THE ESKS, 187-9 The Eye... Grant's House, Reston, Ayton, 187-8. ..The Tyne, its upper waters, 189... Haddington... rigid pre- servation of the river, 190.. .The valley of the Tyne... Crichton Castle... Hailes Castle... Tyningham.. ..Press- mennan-loch...TheBiel-burn, 190 l...The Esks...The Duke of Buccleuch and the Edinburgh Coramissi^iiers of Supply on the pollution of the North E^k, 191-3 ...The South Esk, 193... Upper portion of the North Esk...Glencorse-burn...The Compensation Pond, 194 ...Edinburgh Pic-nic-ers atHabbie's Howe, 195.. .The Mouth of the Esk... Sea-trout... the Scenery, 196. CONCLUSION, IS The Anatomist of Melancholy on Fishing, 197... The Philosophy of the Sport, 198.. .The need of earnest- ness, 199...Izaak Walton's pious conclusion, 200. APPENDIX. A. Abstract of the Provisions of the Tweed Fisheries Act, 1859. B. Trout-fishing in Salmon Casts. C. Notes on the Growth and Habits of the Salmon. NOTE.—Since the Act of 1859, of which an abstract is given in Ap- pendix A, two other Scotch Fisheries Acts have been passed, one in Augusi 1862 and another in July 1863. By these the regulations for the protec- tion of breeding sahnon are made still more stringent; and accordingly it is now the law that all persons convicted of mev&\y possessing any salmon- roe {see pp. 41 et seq.) for sale, or for fishing purposes, as well as those de- tected fishing with it, are liable to a penalty of £2, and forfeiture of the roe in their possession. Moreover it is a criminal offence punishable by a fine of £5 or three months' imprisonment, for three or more persons " in company" to fish for salmon illegally at night, —or even to he found to- gether at night upon any ground near salmon ^waters, if the intent to fish illegally can be proved against them by their possession of the requisite implements or otherwise. ', THE BORDER ANGLER. • IHl * CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. ) H E keen Angler who has nothing to do but to pursue his sport, will probably, during the trouting season, erect his" tabernacle by some river- side, where the murmuring stream will at night " invite him to rest,'' and in the morning to recreation, and where he will be in a position to take advantage of those fleeting moods favourable to the exercise of his art which air and water sometimes assume. As, however, there is a large number of keen anglers who cannot make it convenient thus to ruralize—whose ways of life are amidst the stir of cities, and who can snatch only in the intervals of business an occa- sional day or two for their amusement—the next thing to be desired is the enjoyment of such facilities for conveyance to the water as shall neutralize, as far as possible, the drawbacks to which the distance of their — 2 THE BORDER ANGLER. residence subjects them. Perhaps no city in the island is so excellently situated in this respect, or so fully provided with these facilities, as Edinburgh. Indeed, considering the number and the variety of streams which are every morning at the command of the in- habitant of "the grey Metropolis of the North, '^ it is doubtful if he is not as well stationed in Edinburgh as he could be if he were to choose for himself a dwelling- place on the very margin even of his favourite stream.
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