H2 The Complete Angler 



He is a fish that lurks close all Winter, but is very 

 pleasant and jolly after mid-April, and in May, 

 and in the hot months. He is of a very fine shape, 

 his flesh is white, his teeth, those little ones that he 

 has, are in his throat, yet he has so tender a mouth, 

 that he is oftener lost after an angler has hooked 

 him than any other fish. Though there be many 

 of these fishes in the delicate river Dove, and in 

 Trent, and some other smaller rivers, as that which 

 runs by Salisbury, yet he is not so general a fish 

 as the Trout, nor to me so good to eat or to angle 

 for. And so I shall take my leave of him : and 

 now come to some observations of the Salmon, 

 and how to catch him. 



