huiks

Updated: June 25, 2025

In the last pool of Ettrick, the water flowed by a steep bank, and, if you cast almost on to the further side, you were perfectly safe to get fish, even when the river was very low. The flies used, three on a cast, were small and dusky, hare's ear and woodcock wing, black palmers, or, as Stoddart sings, Wee dour looking huiks are the thing, Mouse body and laverock wing.

Andrew Lang - Angling Sketches