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ENTWINED WITH THE TWEED

What is your earliest memory of fishing on the River Tweed?

On 26 and 27 April 1960 – I was just nine years old. I caught my first salmon on the 26th in the Weil Stream on the Birgham Dub beat, fishing from a boat, rowed by one of those many legendary Tweed boatmen (was it Mr Coxon or Mr Struther?). It was a 6lb salmon and it rose

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