104 The Salmon 
fined in tanks succeeded in jumping out, whilst others merely swam 
round and round as if seeking for an exit. Should such be made in a 
pond, or even in a large loch, 
smolts would quickly find it out 
and make their way seawards. 
After a parr becomes a smolt 
it never loses its silvery scales 
again. All those I have ever 
August 1907. 
caught were like a bar of silver 
both in summer and in winter. 
During April and May they rise 
freely to fly, but after this they 
begin to become bottom-feeders. 
When hooked with fly they 
give good sport, cutting through 
the water like a knife, and 
then jumping several times out 
of it. 
SALMON FEEDING IN FRESH 
W ATER 
A great deal of nonsense 
has been talked about salmon 
feeding in fresh water. I have 
had ample opportunity of watch- 
107.—4-0z. Smolt, confined in Bertha Loch five months after becoming a smolt. 
ing salmon all my life, from 
the time they enter. fresh water 
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till their return to the _ sea, 
and I have eiven close atten- 
tion to the subject, and have 

no hesitation in stating that 
during the salmon’s sojourn in fresh water it does not require to feed: 
It does seem strange, of course, that a fish coming up a fiver in 
