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adorns the left bank, near the town, is a really 

 delightful one. The Abbey, a place of great anti- 

 quity, is best seen from the banks of the river. The 

 angling in the Jed is good, particularly after a sum- 

 mer's fresh, when the minnow and. worm will be 

 found to do great execution. A fly-fisher must here 

 practice the art of chucking his line underneath the 

 trees and brushwood. 



A little below the entrance of the Jed into the 

 Tiviot, we find the Oxnam water. It is not of any 

 great extent ; but the main river about this locality, 

 and for some distance down, is exceedingly favour- 

 able for the general angler. These places abound 

 with admirable stretches of water. 



The Kale tributary is a great favourite with all 

 the anglers about Kelso and its vicinity, and deserv- 

 edly so. It is full of fine trout; and when they are 

 in the humour and they are by no means sulky or 

 capricious they greedily seize everything in the 

 shape of a fly presented to them. Nay, when all 

 shape seemed to have gone when wings and body 

 were torn to tatters we have seen them rise at the 

 bare hook as eagerly as at the most highly finished 

 fly that ever came out of a London tackle-maker's 

 shop. The Kale trout are, in fact, the most raven- 

 ous and unscrupulous feeders we ever saw. 



Finding ourselves again at Kelso, there is a fine 

 succession of streams and stretches of still water, for 

 many miles below it. These have various names 

 bestowed upon them by anglers of the neighbour- 

 hood, but they are of no importance to the general 



