S3o SALMON AND TROUT. 



minnow called the "Derby Trout Killer." It is sold by John 

 Bullock, Compton Street, Derby. Ask for sizes No. i and 

 No. 2. I bagged seventeen trout with it in a very short time, 

 and a friend, who fished with me, twenty.' 



An ingeniously constructed folding tray case has been lately 

 manufactured by Messrs. Watson for the purpose of carrying 

 these and similar baits (vide cut). 



The minnow, both natural and artificial, can be used at all 

 times of the season, and in all rivers where its employment is 

 not interdicted. It is especially successful in some of the 

 Devonshire and Cornwall streams for taking what is locally 

 known as 'salmon peel 7 a variety of migratory Salmonidcc 

 to which ichthyologists have not yet agreed in assigning a 

 specific place. Some writers consider it as a sort of small-sized 

 grilse, or the young of the true salmon on its first return from 

 the sea, and others merely as a variety of the salmon trout. 

 Unfortunately many of the streams of Devonshire and Cornwall 

 have been so frightfully polluted of late years by mine water 



