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salmon usually returns to the same river in which 

 it was bred, as young pigeons taken out of the 

 same dove-cote have also been observed to do. 



And you are yet to observe further that the he- 

 salmon is usually bigger than the spawner, and 

 that he is more kipper and less able to endure a 

 winter in the fresh water than she is ; yet she is at 

 that time of looking less kipper and better, as 

 watery and as bad meat. 



And yet you are to observe that as there is no 

 general rule without an exception, so there are 

 some few rivers in this nation that have trouts and 

 salmons in season in winter, as it is certain there 

 be in the river Wye in Monmouthshire, where they 

 be in season, as Camden observes, from September 

 till April. But, my scholar, the observation of 

 this and many other things I must in manners 

 omit, because they will prove too large for our 

 narrow compass of time ; and therefore I shall 

 next fall upon my directions how to fish for this 

 salmon. 



And for that : first, you shall observe that usually 

 he stays not long in a place, as trouts will, but, as 

 I said, covets still to go nearer the spring-head ; 

 and that he does not, as the trout and many 

 other fish, lie near the water-side or bank, or roots 

 of trees, but swims in the deep and broad parts of 

 the water, and usually in the middle and near the 

 ground, and that there you are to fish for him, and 

 that he is to be caught as the trout is with a worm, 

 a minnow, which some call a penk, or with a fly. 



