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tradiction, I pronounce this same barling to be a 

 most prodigiously stupid method of proceeding, 

 and little superior to setting night lines. I tried it 

 once in the Tay, but no more harling for me. To 

 do the Tweed folks justice, I never saw it practised 

 there ; and I can only recommend it to those liberal 

 persons who wish to drive the salmon from their 

 own waters to those of their neighbours above. 



What, alas ! becomes of the beautiful wielding of 

 the rod, thrown (albeit heavy, and difficult to man- 

 age) with a grace and dexterity that indicates no 

 exertion, the fly not falling like a four-and-twenty 

 pounder, but just kissing the surface of the water, 

 and moving to and fro in a manner so seducing as 

 to beguile the most wary salmon of every atom of 

 prudence ! . 



FISHING WITH BAIT, MINNOW, AND PARR'S TAIL 



When the water is too low for the fly, and quite 

 clear, then begins the bait or worm fishing in Tweed. 

 The tackle consists of a large hook at the end of your 

 line, and a smaller one above it, placed like the lip- 

 hook in minnow tackle. These are threaded with 

 worms. The manner of putting them on will be 

 better learnt from the fisherman on the river side, 

 than it can be explained in writing. When the 

 water is in right order, that is, low and clear, as I 

 have said above, and the weather fresh, a clever 

 fisherman may glean the river of almost all the fish 

 that are left in the streams. Tolerably large shot 

 being fixed towards the end of the line, and the 

 worms themselves being heavy, it requires some 



