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In fresh water salmon are caught with a fly, 

 or speared; they are also captured in weirs, 

 or wooden traps, which are so arranged as to 

 admit of the ingress, but not of the egress of 

 the fish. But they are usually taken at the 

 mouths of the rivers, which they frequent, being 

 captured in nets ; the take is sometimes quite 

 astounding, several hundred being taken by one 

 sweep of the net. 



THE SCAD. 



This fish, scad commonly so called, but pro- 

 perly the horse mackerel, is often taken along 

 with the mackerel, for it is a greedy fish after 

 bait, and always a disappointment to the fisher- 

 mena lean, bony fish, that no one cares for. 



THE RAY. 



The British seas are inhabited by several 

 varieties of this species, including the skate and 

 thornback, so common to our fish-markets. 

 They are taken from boats or vessels at anchor, 

 with hand-lines, or on the hooks of long lines. 

 The line employed should be 4 ; snouding, 2 ; 

 lead, 1 ; hook, 3 or 4. The bait sand-eel, shell- 

 fish, or any glittering fish, cut up. It frequents 

 the entrances to large rivers, and round the 

 locality of old hulks, feeding on the shell-fish 

 and sea insects which adhere to the rotting 

 timbers. It is usually from twelve to eighteen 

 inches in length. It is captured from boats or 

 vessels with hand-lines, or on the hooks of long 

 lines line, 5 ; snouding, 3 ; hooks, 4, 5 ; leads, 



