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and therefore bolder than a trout, for he will rise 

 twenty times at a fly if you miss him, and yet rise 

 again. He has been taken with a fly made of the 

 red feathers of a parakita, a strange outlandish 

 bird ; and he will rise at a fly not unlike a gnat or 

 a small moth, or indeed at most flies that are not 

 too big. 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 deli- 

 cate 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. 



