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minnow or any small fish, the same traces that you use 

 for the pike or trout will do for the salmon also. His 

 haunts are in swift violent streams and large rivers; 

 therefore when you angle for them it must be in such 

 like places. When you fish with the lobworm, use the 

 single three-hook traces with two worms on at once, and 

 fix them so that all the hooks may be covered and the tail 

 of one hang below the other. When you are thus pro- 

 vided, fish at the bottom and at the tail end of the 

 stream, keeping the line still, and yourself out of sight aa 

 much as possible ; but if they do not bite, move your 

 line gently up the stream, and if your bait is not taken, 

 you may conclude there are not any there. This way of 

 angling is best at the clearing after a fresh, or when 

 on the rise before it becomes too thick ; but the best way 

 of taking them is with the fly. 



THE SALMON FRY. 



They are in some places called "salmon smelts," in 

 other places " smelts," and also " salmon pinks ;'' it is 

 a handsome little fish, and has very much the appearance 

 of a young trout, indeed the difference is scarcely dis- 

 cernable, only the small fleshy fin on the back near the 

 tail is of a grey colour, and that on the trout is red. They 

 are to be met with in all the rivers which salmon fre- 

 quent, being the produce of the spawn left by them, In 

 the second year they are called "sprods," in the third 

 "morCs," in the fourth "forktails," in the- fifth "half 

 fish/' and in the sixth year "salmon." They begin to 



