The Border Angler Author:James Glass Bertram Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and, if there is a slight flood, he will generally be well rewarded. Eddleston-water enters the Tweed just at Peebles, separating indeed the old from the new ... more »part of the town. The Peebles railway joins the vale through which the Eddleston flows about seven miles from Peebles, and follows it down to the ancient burgh, where railway and stream both terminate. The upper part of the Eddleston owns the sway of Mr. William Forbes Mackenzie of Portmore, but we are not aware that he has made any attempts to impose restrictions upon the angler's traffic in it. It is below Portmore, however, that the best fishing is to be had, and the angler may either get out at Eddleston station and fish down (about five miles) to Peebles, or may go to Peebles and fish back to Eddlestone. If he is using minnow, or if the water is coloured, the former would be the better course; if the water is clear, and he is fishing with fly or worm, we should recommend the latter. Peebles is a highly eligible station for the angler. The arms of the burgh are three salmon, but, like the pretensions of the town itself, these are emblematic rather of the traditional past than of the actual present. In the last generation some of the best and most successful salmon-fishers of the Tweed were burghers of Peebles, but probably not one of their successors can boast the capture of a clean salmon per annum for twenty years past. Now that kelt-killing is abolished, the occupation of the Peebles salmon-fishers is gone, unless an occasional clean fish or two should in future be permitted to make their way so far up. The Peeblesbodies, however, are shocking poachers, and we should imagine the Tweed bailiffs would like to have an Aladdin's lamp to shift the town to some other quarter of the globe during the winter season. At th...« less