Lti ART OF ANGLING. 



vature of the jaws ; both the upper and lower 

 mandible bending towards each other, more or 

 less, in different individuals, and at different 

 seasons. The general colour of both sexes is 

 a silvery grey, of a much darker cast on the 

 back ; the sides of the male are marked with 

 numerous small, irregular, dusky and copper- 

 coloured spots, while those of the female exhi- 

 bit only several rather large, distant, roundish 

 spots of a dark colour ; the male is somewhat 

 longer, and of a more slender shape than the 

 female." 



Having thus briefly premised the general cha- 

 racter and size of the Salmon, it is necessary 

 to give some account of its haunts and feeding- 

 times, and then proceed to the artifices best 

 adapted for its capture. The principal seasons 

 for the angler to follow his operations are during 

 the months of March and September. It does 

 not stay long in a place, neither does it, like 

 most other fish, lie near the river's edge, but 

 swims in the deepest parts, and usually in the 

 middle, near the ground. Its prime feeding- 

 time is from six till nine o'clock in the morning, 

 and from three in the afternoon till sunset. 



The primary and most important articles with 

 which the angler should be provided, are, a 

 rod, reel, reel-line, cast-line, artificial flies, 

 and various gut bottoms adapted to the diffe- 

 rent modes of taking Salmon. 



