58 THE FLY FISHER'S GUIDE. 



FISH WHICH TAKE THE FLY. 



The Salmon The Trout The Gravel Fry The Grayling or Um- 

 berThe Graining The Gray Mullet The Chub, Chevin or 

 Chavinder The Bleak The Roach and the Dace. 



THE SALMON. 



As this beautiful and delicious fish spends a 

 considerable portion of its life in the sea, it can 

 hardly with propriety be considered a fresh-water 

 fish j yet, as it is to be found in most of our 

 rivers which have direct communication with the 

 ocean, and as it is productive of such very supe- 

 rior diversion to the angler, it has been generally 

 usual, in treatises of this description, to give it 

 precedence as the king of fishes. 



Inasmuch as the use of the fly surpasses every 

 other mode of angling, in the same ratio is the 

 angling for salmon superior to common trout 

 fishing. The following extract, as being in 

 unison with the ideas of the compiler, he has 



