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and it is only a certain time after a fresh that there is 

 any prospect of sport ; after the flood has to a certain 

 degree subsided, and when the water has cleared off to 

 a light brown colour. The exact critical time is diffi- 

 cult to hit, as frequently, when both water and 

 weather appear most favourable, the fish may be on 

 the move, and not a single fin will stir to the fly. 

 There are plenty of fine still deeps where doubtless 

 numbers of salmon lie, and which with a good breeze 

 might be productive of sport even when the water is 

 low ; but unfortunately the banks of nearly all of 

 them are wooded, quite close to the water's edge, so 

 as to effectually prevent any one from handling a rod 

 in their vicinity, and there are no boats on the river to 

 be had for love or money, with the exception of two or 

 three belonging to private gentlemen. North Tyne is 

 by no means an early river, but few fish visiting it until 

 the latter part of the season in September and October, 

 and there is little to be caught in the shape of salmon 

 in the spring months but kelts. 



SALMON-CASTS ON NORTH TYNE. 



The principal casts for salmon on this river, from the 

 town of Hexham to its source, are one or two streams 

 close above Hexham ; one near Wall Station on the 

 Border Counties Railway, which runs by the side of the 

 river along its whole course, rendering it as convenient 

 to the angler as he could possibly wish for ; the Bar- 

 rasford Water; the Nunwick Water ; the Eels; Boat-pool 



