THE CURING OF SALMON ROE, AND 

 HOW TO FISH WITH IT. 



(Chiefly extracted from Stoddart's Angler's Companion.} 



There are two or three ways of curing salmon 

 roe. It is either cured entire that is, as it is 

 taken from the fish in the form of what is pro- 

 vincially termed the k 'waim" ; or it is reduced 

 into a paste ; or else it is converted to single par- 

 ticles termed beads. 



The first object of the curer is to obtain what is 

 reckoned an available supply of roe. Much of the 

 ingredient met with under that name is next to 

 useless, the seed or ova being too small in the 

 particle, or else through an injury done to the fish 

 from which they are taken, largely transfused 

 with blood. In either case, and under other cir- 

 cumstances easily recognisable, it ought to be re- 

 jected. The roe best adapted for curing is to be 

 found in the " baggit " fish, or ripe spawner ; 

 that is, a salmon on the eve of depositing its ova. 

 The beads or pellets shorld, unless intended to 

 be cured in the way first mentioned, have 

 attained their full size, equalling that of a small 



