10 PREFACE. 



that he was partly, if not entirely, in the right. 

 So I began to listen a little to reason, and con- 

 tracted my plan, resolving to treat on Salmon 

 Fishing alone, as it is practised in the Tweed ; 

 for although various authors have written some 

 pages on the sport, yet I am not aware that 

 any one has as yet gone far into the subject, 

 or given any precepts, or treated of the various 

 methods available to the sportsman of killing 

 these valuable animals in the rod-fisher's part 

 of a river throughout the whole of the lawful 

 season. This I have attempted to do in the 

 following pages, having had more than twenty 

 years' practice in that border river alone, above 

 twelve miles of which I rented at different 

 periods. 



To the Tweed I have confined myself; and I 

 beg my readers to observe, that my remarks 

 and instructions are meant to apply to that 

 river alone ; and consequently that I am not 

 accountable for what salmon choose to do in 

 other waters, and for the different means that 

 people may employ for catching them there. 



Deer-stalking and salmon-fishing are at the 

 head of field and river sports : having written 

 what has been very generously received upon 

 the first and best of these subjects, I have 



