234 MALACOPTERYGII. — SALMON ID^. 



this fine fish. Many other kinds of nets and 

 seines are also used, some more general, others 

 more local. In some rocky rivers Salmon are 

 taken with the fish-spear, a mode of fishing that 

 requires a quick eye, and a true hand. And 

 numbers fall before the skill and science of the 

 enthusiastic fly-fisher, who counts all other de- 

 lights joyless to the excitement of his favourite 

 sport. 



In Mr. Jesse's very interesting " Scenes of 

 Country Life," there is a letter from a nobleman, 

 who had been on a fishing excursion into the 

 highlands of Scotland, on the subject of fiy -fishing 

 for Salmon in the sea. From this communication 

 we make the following extracts. The particular 

 locality is not indicated. 



" As far as I am aware there is only one spot 

 in the neighbourhood where fish have been so 

 taken. About four miles to the south of this 

 place, a small river discharges itself into a creek 

 or estuary, which formerly extended about six 

 miles inland, but half of it has been reclaimed by 

 carrying a mound from shore to shore. Within 

 about a mile of the mouth of this creek, the main 

 channel of the tide and the river approaches the 

 south shore, and from the point which commands 

 this channel, the fly is used with murderous effect 

 at half ebb tide. Having a yacht and boats at 

 my disposal, I anchored the latter two days since 

 in the channel, and I never saw men so astonished 

 as some of my Harwich sailors were with the 

 spectacle which presented itself, as they had 

 never seen a Salmon except on a fishmonger's 

 stall. The air, rather than the water, was alive 

 with Salmon and Sea-trout of all sizes, jumping 



