1 88 ANGLING 



to all rod-fishers. Trolling has here, too, become quite 

 fashionable. All kinds of lightish-winged flies are 

 suitable for summer fishing in this stream. 



The Aln passes Alnwick, the county town ; and there 

 is a range of about five miles of water open for all rod- 

 anglers. The Newcastle and Berwick Eailway crosses it 

 near Bilton station, where the sportsman may place 

 himself on the banks of the stream by a five minutes' 

 walk. It is very prolific of trout, of a better size and 

 quality than the Coquet fish, but the salmon-trout are 

 scarce. 



The river Till is approached by way of Berwick. 

 The railway from that place to Kelso crosses the Till. 

 It is a slow and languid running stream, very deep in 

 certain localities, but contains very rich and fme trout, 

 with a small sprinkling of pike, though not of large 

 size. Till is not a good fly-river, but is admirable for 

 trolling. It runs into the Tweed, and is well stocked 

 from this splendid reservoir. There is an old rhyme, 

 among the people in the neighbourhood, ia reference 

 to the comparative swiftness of the two rivers. 



" Tweed said to Till, 



' What gars ye rin sae still ? ' 

 Till said to Tweed, 

 'Though ye rin wi' speed, 



And I rin slaw, 

 Yet where ye drown ae man, 



I drown twa.'" 



In the rivers Reed, Wansbecl; and Blyth, all rivers 

 of Northumberland, there are fine trout, but they can 

 only be properly angled for by persons who have a 

 very accurate knowledge of the pecuharities of each 

 stream. For general tourists they are not well fitted. 



We come now to enumerate at some length another 

 batch of rivers and lakes, all full of interest, and 

 abounding with fish of all kinds — namely, the rivers 

 and lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lanca- 

 shire. Here an angling traveller can have a ramble 

 among rivers of all sizes, and in sections of the country 

 diversified by every kind of landscape. We know no 



