the water watcher 05.
WOODFOOT.
looking up the borthwick valley, from the woodfoot ford. towards the footslopes of cowlady hill, or the cow hill, coo hill. and onwards to todshiehaugh. when i was a boy - from this very small stream, no bigger than a ditch. and rises on the distant hill. i had a brown trout of over half a pound, which was a monster at the time to a 5yo,by guddling under the banks where it enters the wood, you would be struggling to find one that size in the main river now, the larch wood looks much the same as it did in the early 60s - when we moved to that area. and there used to be a row of large elms along the fence line, that my dad had to cut down due to the dreaded dutch elm. hawick, scottish borders, scotland.
WOODFOOT.
looking up the borthwick valley, from the woodfoot ford. towards the footslopes of cowlady hill, or the cow hill, coo hill. and onwards to todshiehaugh. when i was a boy - from this very small stream, no bigger than a ditch. and rises on the distant hill. i had a brown trout of over half a pound, which was a monster at the time to a 5yo,by guddling under the banks where it enters the wood, you would be struggling to find one that size in the main river now, the larch wood looks much the same as it did in the early 60s - when we moved to that area. and there used to be a row of large elms along the fence line, that my dad had to cut down due to the dreaded dutch elm. hawick, scottish borders, scotland.