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G-ALA, although very much fished by anglers from 

 Edinburgh, is first-rate for fly, worm, or minnow- 

 fishing; trouts generally plentiful and good; and 

 some good tributaries join it. Many excellent 

 burns about its source. Angling free. 



ELLWAND, or ALLAN a burn falls into Tweed 

 two miles below G-alashiels. Angling poor, but a 

 fair basket is sometimes made in it after a flood. 

 Angling free. 



LEADER, at Earlston ; perhaps the best angling 

 stream falling into the Tweed. All the ordinary 

 flies and baits may be fished with successfully ; trout 

 a good size and plentiful ; many first-rate burns at 

 head of the Leader three-and-a-half miles at foot 

 preserved, also about a mile at Lauder. The Editor 

 has killed 24 Ibs. of trout in the Leader in a day. 

 This was in midsummer when the water was small 

 and clear. BOON water falls into Leader three miles 

 below Lauder. Fishing good, and free. 



TEVIOT. Enters the Tweed at Kelso, and is a 

 splendid fishing stream, 35 miles long. Above 

 Hawick the fishing is good, but for a few miles be- 

 low that town it is rendered useless by the waste 

 dye stuffs from the mills. Where the refuse no longer 

 affects the water it again becomes a good angling 

 stream* Opposite Jedburgh or Lanton the fishing 



