CHAPTEK XL 



APPLICATION. 



E have treated at considerable length 

 of the four principal methods usually 

 employed for capturing trout. The 

 reader may perhaps be disappointed that 

 salmon-roe fishing has not been added as a 

 fifth ; but our reason for keeping it out is, 

 that we do not consider it a justifiable 

 method of angling, the high price the roe brings 

 affording great, indeed the principal, encourage- 

 ment to the wholesale destruction of breeding 

 salmon which goes on in Tweed and its tributaries 

 during close time. We think that in the first Act 

 introduced upon the subject of the salmon-fisheries, 

 there should be a clause inserted rendering it 

 illegal for any one to fish with salmon-roe, or to be 

 found with it in his possession. Doing away with 

 this traffic would do more to protect the Tweed 

 than all the water-bailiffs between Tweedsmuir 

 and Berwick. There are certainly a few salmon 

 taken shortly before the fishings close, with roe 



