SALMO HUCHO. 225 



Hal. — I see him: it is neither a pike nor 

 a trout, but a fish which I have been some 

 time hoping and expecting to see here, be- 

 low the fall — a salmo hucho, or hue/ten. I 

 am delighted that you have an opportunity 

 of seeing this curious fish, and of observing 

 his habits. I hope we shall catch him. 



Poiet. — Catch him! we have no tackle 

 strong enough. 



Hal. — I am surprised to hear a salmon 

 fisher talk so : yet he is too large to take a 

 fly, and must be trolled for. We must spin 

 a bleak for him, or small fish, as we do for 

 the trout of the Thames or the salmon of 

 the Tay. Ornither, you understand the 

 arrangement of this kind of tackle — look out 

 in my book the strongest set of spinning 

 hooks you can find, and supply them with a 

 bleak; and whilst I am changing the reel I 

 will give you all the information (which, I 

 am sorry to say, is not much) that I have 

 been able to collect respecting this fish from 

 my own observation or the experience of 

 others. The hucho is the most predatory 

 fish of the salmo genus, and is made like an 



Q 



