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SCOTCH SALMON CATCHES OF SEASON EDINBURGH. Scotland, December 27. Salmon angling on the Tweed and Teviot Rivers ended November 30. The last fortnight afforded poor sport. The skies were bright, the rivers, were low and there was not u single breeze so indispensable for fishing the dubs and deep pools. It lias been a disappointing season notwithstanding a succession" of floodlets from the week in which tiie nets were off. Ird Knaresbcrougii had sixty-three fish on Lower Birghani and Captain Balfour, of Newton Don, seventy-three on the Earl of Homes higher water. The Earl of Dudley caught ninety-two on Sprouston and Sir John Holder 133 at Hendersyde. Mr. Hood had fully thirty on Ednam House water, and the Dake of Koxburghe about sixty on a stretch of his water which was not let. The Marquis of Zetland had seventy-one on Makerstoun and Lord Glenconner forty-six on Dryburgh. The higher reaches of Tweed were no better than lust year, which was the worst for many. Lord Ellesmerc killed the heaviest fish of the autumn. It weighed forty-three pounds and, as previously reported. Sir John Holder came next witii a forty-pounder. Teviot yielded about fifteen fish, the average of which was good, one being twenty-nine pounds and another thirty pounds.
