150 THE SCOTTISH ANGLER. 



shire, and is, upon the whole, a tolerable angling water. 

 The Canal and Linlithgow Loch contain pike, perch, 

 and some beautiful trout, to be caught with the dead 

 minnow and worm. 



PEEBLESSHIRE. 



Tweed runs through this county, gathering its tri- 

 bute from numerous small streams, all of which breed 

 shoals of trout and salmon. Of these, the principal are 

 the Fruid, Tala, Biggar Water, Lyne, Manor Water, 

 Eddlestone, Leithen, and Quair. Each of these, but 

 especially the Tala, abounds in fish. Lyne also, al- 

 though much deteriorated of late, was at one time con- 

 sidered a good water. The best stations on this the 

 upper part of Tweed, are the Crook Inn, the Inn at 

 Rommanno Bridge, situated on the Lyne, West Lin- 

 ton, Peebles, and Riddel's Inn, Innerleithen. 



Belonging properly to this shire, the Meggat, which 

 flows into St Mary's Loch, recommends itself to the 

 fly fisher. We have heard it reckoned the best stream 

 in the south of Scotland, and have ourselves often taken 

 numbers of fine heavy fish out of it, in the course of a 

 morning, when the water was slightly flooded, and the 

 trout ascended from the lake in quest of food. Into 

 Meggat fall the Winterhope and Glengaber Burns, both 

 well stored with fish. The black and red professor, 

 along with the blue and hare's ear bodies, are the most 

 killing flies for this county, and may be used with suc- 

 cess in all its streams. 



The upper part of Tweeddale may be easily reached 

 from Edinburgh, by the coaches to Dumfries. 



SELKIRKSHIRE. 



There are many good stations for the angler in this 

 county. It is watered by Yarrow and Ettrick, con- 

 siderable streams. The primest part of Tweed also runs 



