THE TRUE FISHES. 





'grilse' returns to the fresh water, as in Ganada and Europe; but il 

 not usually in the United States. 



Says Norris, in his 'American Angler' : "There is nothing in the 

 that surpasses a grilse in its symmetrical beauty, its brilliancy, its 

 and its pluck. I have had one of four pounds to leap from the ■ 

 times, and higher and farther than a salmon. Woe to the angler \ 



Fig. 304.- Above, the salmon (Salmo solar) ; below, the sea-trout or salmon-trmr 



attempts, without giving line, to hold one even of three pounds ! 1 1 

 it at the risk of his" casting-line, or his agile opponent tears a pi 

 jaw or snout in its desperate effort to escape. 



The fishing for the salmon is rightly ranked as the high 

 angler — not that fishing which employs nets and seines, bu 

 between man and fish which calls into play every muscle and 



