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In July especially, after some good floods, we 

 have often good sport with the grilses or young 

 salmon ; and the ny is the only lure I ever used 

 to them. I have known them take May fly, and 

 also minnows, at this time ; but fly is the readiest, 

 and they are far more greedy on it now than 

 when the season is farther advanced. It is also 

 the most delightful time of the year to wade in, 

 the water being of a mild temperature. But 

 the real time of salmon fishing on Tweed (I 

 speak of, perhaps forty miles up from the sea), is 

 reckoned after the nets were taken off, which 

 used to be 15th October, and we had to the 7th 

 November inclusive, allowed for rod fishing only. 

 This is now altered, and extended to the 30th 

 November for the rod, and no other lure 

 than fly allowed. I may mention, that the 

 Bill of 1858, by some mismanagement, the 

 Marquis of Westminster chairman of com-- 

 mittee, not clearly understanding the point, 

 closed the nets on the 1st, and the rod fishing 

 on the 14th October, and in allusion to this cir- 

 cumstance, and the great many poachers who 

 come from the adjacent towns at this time, the 

 following appeared in the * Border Advertiser ' 

 of Galashiels : 



