Archive image from page 103 of Days and nights of salmon. Days and nights of salmon fishing in the Tweed : with a short account of the natural history and habits of the salmon, instructions to sportsmen, anecdotes, etc. daysnightsofsalm1898scro Year: 1898 64 SALMON FISHING IN THE TWEED and straik nets. From Coldstream to the Bridge of Kelso the net and coble are used only par- tially in floods; and on Mondays, says Mr. Houy, when, by the cessation of the lower fishings on Sunday, the salmon get further up, I have seen from 100 to 500 salmon and gilses caught at Kelso in the morning by the ne
Archive image from page 103 of Days and nights of salmon. Days and nights of salmon fishing in the Tweed : with a short account of the natural history and habits of the salmon, instructions to sportsmen, anecdotes, etc. daysnightsofsalm1898scro Year: 1898 64 SALMON FISHING IN THE TWEED and straik nets. From Coldstream to the Bridge of Kelso the net and coble are used only par- tially in floods; and on Mondays, says Mr. Houy, when, by the cessation of the lower fishings on Sunday, the salmon get further up, I have seen from 100 to 500 salmon and gilses caught at Kelso in the morning by the net and coble. From Kelso to the higher districts of the river the principal modes of fishing are by the rod, leister, cairn and straik net.' When fish are ascending the river the cairn net is very destructive. In the parts of the river most favourable for placing it a cairn is built, as in the This projection into the current makes the water comparatively still and easy below; and salmon in travelling naturally take to it, as finding there some relief to the labour of ascending. They pass between the net and the shore; and en- 1 This mode of fishing, like leistering and ' burning the water,' is now illegal.—Ed.
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