268 Salmon Fishing. 



recruiting the Spring-fish in so short a time, 

 and to such an extent, is a problem for the 

 scientific to unravel. The absence of parasites 

 from the gill-covers may be the result of the 

 poison in solution in the river; and the fish, 

 thus freed from their tormentors, be able to 

 recover health and strength all the sooner. 

 Still in this, and many other matters relating 

 to salmon, we are sadly in the dark. 



In wide-sweeping laws on the subject, to 

 enforce rules and regulations alike for all rivers, 

 strikes me as being no less a bungle, than for 

 the hatter to make all his hats from the same 

 block, to fit the heads of his various customers. 



It is well known, that in some rivers the 

 majority of the fish run up early; in others 

 less so ; and in some, as in North Wales, very 

 late. Instinct, no doubt, tells the fish, that 

 in the latter there is a greater chance of high 

 water later on in the year, and they shape their 

 domestic economy accordingly. On this account, 

 it is but reasonable that rod-fishing should be 



