Angling sketches . ^. NEWARK CASTLE A BORDER BOYHOOD 21 Wee dour looking huiks are the thing,Mouse body and laverock wing. Next to Ettrick came Tweed : the former riverjoins the latter at the bend of a long stretch ofwater, half stream, half pool, in which angling wasalways good. In late September there were sea-trout, which, for some reason, rose to the fly muchmore freely than sea-trout do now in the upperTweed. I particularly remember hooking onejust under the railway bridge. He was a two-pounder, and practised the usual sea-trout tacticsof springing into the air like a rocket. There wasa k
Angling sketches . ^. NEWARK CASTLE A BORDER BOYHOOD 21 Wee dour looking huiks are the thing,Mouse body and laverock wing. Next to Ettrick came Tweed : the former riverjoins the latter at the bend of a long stretch ofwater, half stream, half pool, in which angling wasalways good. In late September there were sea-trout, which, for some reason, rose to the fly muchmore freely than sea-trout do now in the upperTweed. I particularly remember hooking onejust under the railway bridge. He was a two-pounder, and practised the usual sea-trout tacticsof springing into the air like a rocket. There wasa knot on my line, of course, and I was obliged tohold him hard. When he had been dragged upon the shingle, the line parted, broken in twain atthe knot; but it had lasted just long enough, duringthree exciting minutes. This accident of a knot onthe line has only once befallen me since, with thestrongest loch-trout I ever encountered. It was onBranxholme Loch, where the trout run to a greatsize, but usually refuse the fly
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