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mills, a distance of about two miles and-a-half. The 

 river is quite free from Ayton to its highest sources ; 

 and after a summer fresh, the streams in this direc- 

 tion will yield a fair portion of sport. No salmon 

 or salmon-trout are found higher up than the paper- 

 mills just mentioned, on account of a wier placed 

 there, which effectually obstructs the fish from 

 ascending higher up the stream. The trout of the 

 Eye are rich, and of average size. There are here 

 and there long stretches of deep water, which are 

 places of shelter for trout, and in which there is 

 commonly good fishing when there is a curl on them. 

 Red-coloured palmer flies are killing in the summer 

 months, but winged ones suit best in the early por- 

 tions of the spring season. There is often good 

 sport in that section of the river, from the paper- 

 mill below Ayton House and the sea, during dry 

 weather and the prevalence of easterly winds. 

 There are sometimes good baskets of trout taken 

 here, especially out of the portions of deep and still 

 water in this direction. The Eye is a good stream 

 for worm fishing in fine weather, as its banks are 

 well covered with brushwood. 



Should the angler keep by the coast towards 

 Edinburgh, he will enter Haddingtonshire. This is 

 not a first-rate locality for angling, but as it has now 

 the facility of a railway communication from the 

 English metropolis, its streams may become more 

 frequented by anglers than they have hitherto 

 been. 



The principal river is the Tyne, which springs out 



