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THE BULL TROUT OR SC U R F . 



The bull trout differs from the salmon and salmon trout, 

 the body and head being much thicker and the tail not so 

 forked ; they will grow to four or five pounds weight, 

 and are to be met with in most rivers that have a com- 

 munication with salt water, from the beginning of June 

 to the end of October ; they are most plentiful in Septem- 

 ber and October, which is their spawning time; there- 

 fore they are not so good at that time; indeed their flesh 

 is at no time so good as that of the salmon. Their 

 haunts are the same as those of the salmon trout, and 

 are to be fished for the same way and with the same 

 flies and baits. 



THE BARBEL. 



So called on account of the two barbs or beards which 

 hang from the upper lip and extend beyond the lower ; it 

 is a handsomely made fish, covered with small round 

 scales, which, together with the sport it affords, is all 

 there is to recommend it to your notice, being scarcely fit 

 for the table. It generally spawns in April or May, and 

 the best feeding time is from the beginning of July to the 

 end of September ; it is to be angled for at the bottom, 

 where he will take the salmon-roe, gentles, lob -worms 

 or toasted cheese. When you bait the place where you 

 intend to fish, do it with rnalt grains, blood, or lob-worms, 

 cut into pieces, and well worked up with clay, and made 



