314 HINTS ON ANGLING. 



Another great advantage which the angler enjoys in 

 Scotland, arises from the fact, that he need not be so 

 fastidious about his flies as he would require to be, or 

 rather as he would be induced to be, in other countries, 

 by the mere force of custom and prejudice. If you have 

 any stock of tolerably well-made flies, and the waters are 

 in good order, you may as surely calculate upon good 

 sport, as upon the appearance of to-morrow's sun. In a 

 word, disappointment can never be permanently, or even 

 generally, experienced in this splendid fishing country. 



We have presented our readers with a list of the rivers 

 of Scotland; and where all the waters are so good, it is 

 almost unnecessary to declare a preference for any; but 

 for the sake of our countrymen in the south of England, 

 who may be induced to pay a visit to Caledonia's streams, 

 we shall point out two or three localities, which will not 

 fail to afford them as full a share of sport as they can 

 have any reasonable right to expect. There can be no 

 disappointment or want of success here, provided that 

 ordinary skill and ordinary industry are faithfully com- 

 bined. 



The Tweed is, beyond all question, the finest river in 

 Scotland for either trout or salmon ; nay, we may almost 

 venture to add, that take it as a whole, there is no river 

 like it in all Europe. The angler can fish it with the 

 fly perfectly unmolested, from its source to its mouth. 

 During the first thirty miles of its course, not a bush nor 

 a tree is to be seen; nothing but the limpid stream 

 winding its murmuring way among hills of considerable 

 elevation, in many cases rounded as in a lathe, and 

 covered with the loveliest verdure to their very summits. 

 To an eye long familiarised with the soft and rich, but 

 comparatively tame scenery of merry England, a ramble 



