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at almost any time, but more especially when a little 

 freshet is in the river after " a spate," as the natives of 

 those parts term a fall of rain. And I have known 

 excellent sport obtained during moonlight with the 

 minnow in the shallows, when the water was low ; a 

 plan frequently adopted by the professionals in the 

 neighbourhood, a rather numerous class on all good 

 rivers. 



Good stations on the Tweed for the sportsman are 

 Sprouston, Bergern, Kelso, Eutherford, Melrose, Inner- 

 leithen, Peebles, and Broughton ; but in fact the angler 

 can scarcely go to a wrong place between her source and 

 tide-mark, as the whole river is an endless succession of 

 first-class casts. 



THE WHITADDER. 



Perhaps the most important of the angling rivers 

 that contribute to the Tweed is the Whitadder the 

 beautiful sparkling Whitadder which every true angler 

 will love for its beautiful scenery, fine trout, crystal waters, 

 and the richness of its garden-like valley. This river 

 takes its rise far up in the Laminermuirs in Berwick- 

 shire, which county it traverses in a south-easterly 

 direction until it falls into the Tweed at Canty's Bridge, 

 four miles above Berwick. A few miles below its 

 source the Whitadder is joined by the Watch and the 

 Dye, two small streams which unite a short distance 

 below the remote village of Longformachus, and then fall 

 into it. At the clean and pretty village of Alliuton, 

 eight miles north of the Tweed, and the same distance 



