6 TBE SPORTING FISH 



This, in a condensed form, is at the present time 

 — as it was when first pubHshed — a fair statement 

 of our positive knowledge as regards the leading 

 facts in the history of the Salmon ; and it may be 

 doubted if any subsequent discoveries — however 

 they may add to or amplify — will be found to mate- 

 rially modify them. In " Fact, No. lo" will be found 

 the first statement of the now very generally ad- 

 mitted theory of a double or divided migration. 



The several species belonging to the genus 

 Salmo, and properly coming within the scope of 

 these pages as British Sporting Fish, may be 

 broadly divided into three groups : — 



1. The Silver, or Migratory species {i.e. those 

 migrating to or from the sea) ; 



2. The Yellow, or Non-migratory species ; and, 



3. The Charrs, or Orange- and Red-coloured 

 species ; 



the general colouring of the first being always 

 more or less greyish-silver, that of the second 

 golden or yellow, and that of the third, espe- 



is then illegal. " Foul fish " before spawning are, if males, 

 termed Red fish, from the orange-coloured stripes with which 

 their cheeks are marked, and the golden-orange tint of the 

 body ; the females are darker in colour, and are called Black 

 fish. After spawning the males are called Kippers, and the 

 females Shedders or Baggits. 



