THE ANGLER'S SOUVENIR. 



while the other represents it as excellent in more 

 streams than any angler who commences salmon- 

 fishing when he comes of age, and hangs up his 

 rod when about seventy, devoting three months 

 in each year to the sport, and fishing each stream 

 thoroughly can hope to get through in his life- 

 time. 



" 'Tis really painful here to see 

 Experienced doctors disagree." 



Fresh-run salmon that is, clean fish from the 

 sea begin, in small numbers, to enter most rivers 

 in the north of England and in the south of Scot- 

 land, about January, if the season be mild ; their 

 numbers increasing during the spring months. In 

 severe winters, and when the streams are full from 

 the melting of the snow, their appearance is pro- 

 portionately delayed, as the salmon has an aversion 

 to snow broth. In some rivers their appearance is 

 from a month to six weeks later than in others ; 

 and there are streams which they never enter till 

 April, though they ascend others which discharge 

 themselves into the same estuary in January. 



The advance-guard of the main body of salmon 

 begin to ascend above the tideway about March 

 in early rivers, and enter the fresh water ; and 

 during this and the three succeeding months of 

 April, May, and June is the best time for angling 

 for salmon within ten or twelve miles of the 

 highest point of the river to which the tide flows- 

 About July they begin to push up towards the 



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