THE ANGLERS SOUVENIR. 



the worm for salmon, it is customary to use a 

 stiffer top-piece than in fishing fly. When a salmon 

 is hooked by either of the former methods, he is to 

 be managed in the same manner as in fly-fishing. 

 There is no rod or tackle that we have ever seen 

 which will enable an angler to throw a salmon of 

 twenty pounds weight over his head, as he would 

 whisk out a trout when shade-fishing. The best 

 time of the day for salmon- fishing is from six in 

 the morning till eleven in the forenoon, and from 

 four in the afternoon till dusk ; but when the water 

 and weather are favourable, they may be angled 

 for at any hour between sunrise and sunset. The 

 angler who in one day has the skill and good for- 

 tune to land four salmon, each upwards of seven 

 pounds, though he may have toiled for them from 

 dawn till evening, has no just cause to grumble, 

 and to represent the water as not worth fishing. 

 An amateur angler, who has thrice in the course of 

 ten years taken eight salmon in one day, is entitled 

 to give a minute detail of each day's proceedings, 

 and catch his salmon over again, in all companies, 

 social, philosophical, or literary. Before taking 

 leave of the salmon, we beg to correct an error of 

 the press in the second series of Mr. Jesse's inte- 

 resting "Gleanings," of which, compared with the 

 " harvesting" of some others, it may be said that 

 " the gleanings of the grapes of Ephraim are better 

 than the vintage of Abiezer." It is there stated, 

 page 305, that "the ovarium of a salmpn will pro- 



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