SILVERSTREM ANGLING.

Evening Star, Issue 12743, 17 August 1907, Page 6

SILVERSTREM ANGLING.

TO THE EDITOK. Sir,—The languid carelessness of the society in. trying, to improve- local felling

(except, as “Another Angler” truly calls it, the Leith ditch) is very discreditable to their much-voiced desire to please the license-holder. Their representative could have taken little pains to present a reasonable side of the weir proposition to his indignant farmers, who were down on all anglers, especially those who shot horses with fishing tackle, to come back with a tale of unanimous refusal. I am sure if “ Another Angler's ” suggestion about licenses were adopted, and if a guarantee were given by the society that the weirs could not possibly hurt the fanner’s property, then we would hear very little more about their opposition. Apart from weirs, what the Silverstream and, I might also say, the Glen crock (which, when last visited by a parly of angling friends and myself, had also run dry, with all its fish exterminated) need arc fish, more fish, bigger fish, and plenty of them. If wc poor time-tied town anglers cannot get both weirs and fish, then at least give us fish, and there ought surely to bo very little difficulty in procuring plenty of good fish from the many teeming overstocked rivers within easy reach "of the City.—l am, etc., Plain Sense An glee. August 17.