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foot distant from each other. As the fry rise very nimbly, 

 they deceive the eye, so that it is necessary to draw the flies 

 rather quick upon the surface, and they will hook themselves. 

 Gentles may be fished with in the same manner, using very 

 small hooks, and putting a single gentle on each. The links 

 to which these hooks are tied should not exceed three inches ; 

 for if longer they are apt to entangle the line. With the 

 addition of the gentle we have killed fifteen dozen of young 

 smolts in the Lifiy, Ireland, in a single day. 



THE SALMON-TROUT. 



This fish is next in value to the salmon, on account of the 

 excellence of its flesh. It is very abundant in most of the 

 rivers of Scotland. It is distingjiishable by the gill-cover 

 being intermediate in its form between that of the salmon 

 and bull-trout. The teeth are more slender and more nu- 

 merous than in the salmon or in the bull-trout ; those of the 

 former extending along a greater part of its length, and 

 indenting the tongue deeply between the two rows of teeth 

 that are there placed, one row ranging on each side. The 

 tail is less forked at the same age than that of the salmon, 

 but becomes, like it, square at the end of the third year. 



The salmon-trout is that which goes under difierent appel- 

 lations in various counties. It is the white-trout of Devon- 

 shire, Wales, and Cornwall, and the sea -trout of the Esk and 

 the Eden. They also inhabit the rivers Don, Spey, Tay, and 

 Tweed, in Scotland ; and are met with in the Sandwich, 

 Thames, and Medway, in England. They enter the rivers 

 early in the spring, and are in prime season from the end 

 of April until July. The salmon-rod should be used in 

 angling for them, the reel-line strong, and foot-length about 

 three yards, of fine twisted silkworm-gut, or the strongest 

 single, with the knots well whipped. When the water is 



