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I adopted different tactics after that, and on that 

 day and the following enjoyed some of the prettiest 

 sport that has ever fallen to my lot. The little 

 pools were very unlike the tenantless casts on the 

 Findhorn; they were teeming with salmon; and, 

 what added greatly to the satisfaction of catching 

 them, they were all bright and new-run, more like 

 summer fish than any that might be expected in the 

 first week of October. 



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 Salmon fishing in a small, rapid stream, has a 



delicate charm that is lost when the 

 A Border. 



Tower river is so large as to involve fishing 

 from a boat. All anglers are agreed about that, 

 yet it is in the Tweed alone, of all the waters in 

 these islands, that you can be sure of a proportion 

 of excellent fish in October, many of them without 

 tinge or tarnish on their silver coats. Even a month 

 later, many fish carry a good enough colour, but it 

 must be admitted that they are so far advanced in 

 a gravid state that they ought to be let alone. 

 However, as the nets have ruined the spring and 

 summer fishing, anglers must be allowed a little 

 licence in the autumn. 



