Fishcraft 95 



The Branch Herring 



Although this is, strictly speaking, 

 a salt water species, it is so frequently 

 caught in the tide water streams along 

 the Atlantic coast that it deserves 

 mention as a fish affording sport to 

 the fresh water angler. The branch 

 herring is perhaps best known as the 

 "alewife," and in spring-time many 

 are taken with artificial flies in the 

 rivers of the Atlantic coast, from 

 the Albemarle and Potomac rivers, 

 northward to the Connecticut, and 

 along the. tide-water streams of Mas- 

 sachusetts and Maine. The land- 

 locked division of the species, in the 

 large inland lakes, also furnish sport 

 to anglers, and good food to the 

 masses. 



The Smelt 



This excellent fish, better known as 

 a table delicacy than as a species of 

 interest to the angler, is one furnish- 

 ing fairly good sport, usually late in 

 the season, as winter approaches, and 

 can then be found quite abundant in 

 the channels and creeks near the 

 coast, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence 



