CHAPTER XL 



APPLICATION. 



have treated at considerable length of 

 the four principal methods usually employ- 

 ed for capturing trout. The reader may 

 perhaps be disappointed that salmon-roe 

 fishing has not been added as a fifth ; but 

 our reason for keeping it out is, that we 

 do not consider it a justifiable method ot 

 angling, the high price the roe brings 

 affording great, indeed the principal, encouragement 

 to the wholesale destruction of breeding salmon 

 which goes on in Tweed and its tributaries during 

 close time. We think, that in the first Act intro- 

 duced upon the subject of the salmon-fisheries, there 

 should be a clause inserted rendering it illegal for 

 any one to fish with salmon-roe, or to be found with 

 it in his possession. Doing away with this traffic 

 would do more to protect the Tweed than all the 

 water-bailiffs between Tweedsmuir and Berwick. 

 There are certainly a few salmon taken shortly before 

 the fishings close, with roe sufficiently matured for 

 curing ; but the roe, legally obtained in this way, is 



