26 FISH AND FISHING IN SCOTLAND. 



Let others love the city, 



And gaudy show at sunny noon : 

 Give me the lonely valley, 



The dewy eve, and rising moon ; 



Fair beaming and streaming 



Her silver light the boughs among. 



The Tyne cannot be fished in a day ; but it may in two or 

 three. Should the weather be favourable, the angler may still 

 even now have good sport. Sweet spots he will pass through ; 

 lowland fields and woods, he traverses, in fact, the valley of the 

 Tyne, one of the richest in Scotland. I recommend him to make 

 for Blackshiels, by coach or on foot. He will find a pleasant inn 

 here, where he should rest for the evening, and, after an early 

 breakfast, make for Hunbie Woods and Manse. The mill-dam, 

 though small, contains abundance of trout, but the stream lower 

 down traverses woods which forbid all angling. He must seek 

 for some more open ground towards Salton, where some parts of 

 the river are still open to the angler. 



In Hunbie Woods stood, a few years ago, a grand tree, sup- 

 posed to have belonged to the original Sylva Caledonia of the 

 Romans. 



The Tyne drains the northern slopes of the Lammermuir from 

 beyond Soutra to the Red Brae of Danskine. A pretty strong 

 branch joins the Tyne running from the Red Hill of Danskine 

 and Lammer Law, by Grifford. I never fished it, but it no doubt 

 contains trout, for I have ate of those which were caught by 

 boys in the neighbourhood of Danskine Inn. They were no 

 way remarkable for their quality, any more than were those 

 caught at Humbie ; and this seems to me the more remarkable, 

 as in the lower waters of the Tyne, from Haddington to the 

 sea, excellent red-spotted pink-coloured trout are caught ; and of 

 the fishings from Haddington to the sea I shall now write. 



The angler, in fishing the Tyne from Haddington to the sea, 

 will be interrupted by several preserved grounds ; but there is 

 sufficient open space below them, above as well as below Hailes 

 Castle. In these waters, fished with care, he cannot fail to take 

 excellent trout with artificial fly and minnow. In May I have 

 caught salmon fry close to Hailes Castle ; but I never saw any 

 par taken in the Tyne, at*any point. There lives on Tyne 



