FLY - FISHING. 



THE SALMON. 



SALMON-FISHING cannot be obtained in the United 

 Kingdom, without visiting either Scotland or Ireland. 

 There might be some in Wales, if proper means were 

 taken to preserve the Welch rivers ; but generally 

 speaking, every Welch fisherman does his utmost to 

 destroy this noble fish : and unless associations for 

 their preservation are soon formed by proper persons, 

 I should not be at all surprised to find that the sal- 

 mon, in a few years, will almost entirely disappear 

 from those rivers. There should be but one law for 

 a river from its source to its mouth ; but at present it 

 is there left to the discretion of the magistrates of the 



county, to fix the times when such parts of a river 



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