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that their depredations caused considerable fears for 

 the future of the lower part of the Teviot as a trouting- 

 stream. A lucky flood, however, carried numbers of 

 them off, and cleared out some of their holds and 

 haunts ; and it seems certain that the floods from the 

 Roxburghshire hills are far too frequent and heavy to 

 allow them ever to become so abundant, or their weedy 

 refuges to become so secure, as to give the esox the 

 ascendancy over the salmo in this famous river. Pike 

 are frequently carried, even by ordinary floods, down 

 the Tweed from the Teviot, the Leet, and the Till, 

 probably even to the sea ; for they have been caught 

 in the salmon-nets within the tide-way. In no part of 

 the main river, however, have they fixed their habi- 

 tation. At Coldstream, a few years ago, a pike was 

 caught in the Tweed by a worm-fisher, in a stream — a 

 circumstance, so far as we know, altogether singular 

 in the history of pike-fishing. Heaton-mill cauld is 

 also about the best cast for pike in the Teviot. 



There are perch in the Teviot, and we believe they 

 are sometimes taken of a very large size, even up to 

 three and four pounds. The minnow, either spun in 

 the ordinary way, or angled with alive, is a more 

 tempting bait for large perch in rivers than in ponds. 

 But little attention, however, is paid to this kind of 

 fishing by border anglers. 



