}ft£ SALMONIA. 



that beautiful) but scantily stocked, river. 



Small salmon and sea trout, or scire its, as 

 they arc called in the country, may be 

 Caught, alter the autumnal Hoods, I believe, 

 in most of the considerable Welsh, Devon- 

 shire, and Cornish streams ; but I have 

 fished in many of them without success. 

 The Conway I may except: this river, in 

 the end of OctobeT) Will sometimes, after a 

 great Hood, furnish a good day's sport, — and 

 if the net lishers could be set aside, several 

 day's sport. 1 have known two salmon, one 

 above SOlbs., taken here in a day; and 1 

 have taken myself line sea tront, or scirc/is, 

 — which, in an autumnal flood in Wales, are 

 Pound in most of the streams near the sea. 



1*011: r. -1 have heard a Northumberland 

 man boast of the rivers of that county, as 



affording good salmon Ashing. 



11 Ah. — 1 have no doubt that .salmon are 

 sometimes caught in the Tync, the Coquet, 

 and the Till; but, in the present state oi' 

 these rivers, this is a rare occurrence. 1 

 was onCO) for a week, on a good run of the 

 North Tync; 1 lished sometimes, but 1 



