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NOTE. 



THE DUKE OF ROXBURGH ACT FOR 1859. 



The rod-fishing ends 30th November and begins first 

 day of February. No eleek to be used from 15th Sep- 

 tember to 1st of May, and to fish with no baits but arti- 

 ficial fly only. Net fishing closes 14th September ; after 

 this, if there are floods, the salmon-fishing has now a 

 chance to be good. We have no fish to speak of In the 

 upper waters. If the river is low, and above the Ettrick 

 to Peebles, there are seldom many fish until after two 

 or three floods ; in fact, to bring them into these waters, 

 the river must be heavy for a fortnight or three weeks. 

 After a heavy flood, or even two, it requires one or two 

 small floods to make anything like salmon-fishing. These 

 twenty-five years, the fishing has been gradually falling 

 off. What this new Bill will do remains to be seen. The 

 present season just over has not been good. Few were 

 caught by rod and line in these upper waters, although 

 there were two floods in October and also middle of 

 November. The fish appear not to have got to the upper 

 waters by the 30th of November, viz., the day of closing. 



CLOSE OF SALMON EOD FISHING ON TWEED. By the 

 Duke of Koxburgh's Act, these fishings ended on the 

 30th ult. on the whole, a bad season. Below Kelso fish 

 were plentiful ; but in the upper waters say, above Yair 

 Bridge the fly-fishing was decidedly poor indeed. Mr 

 Locke, of Regent Street, captured a good fish of 23 Ibs. 

 after a severe run of upwards of two hours. Court 

 Journal, 3d December 1859. 



