16 AET OF ANGLING. 



and ends on Old Michaelmas day. The chief 

 English rivers in which Salmon are now caught are 

 the Tyne, the Trent, the Severn, the Wye, and the 

 Tweed. A young Salmon under two pounds in 

 weight is called a Salmon Peel, and a larger one a 

 Grilse. Salmon cannot be eaten too fresh ; and is 

 very unwholesome when stale. 



The general length of the Salmon is from two 

 and a half to three feet, but sometimes more : the 

 male is principally distinguished by the curvature of 

 the jaws; both the upper and lower mandible bending 

 towards each other, more or less in different indivi- 

 duals, 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 exhibit 

 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 season for the angler to 

 follow his sport is from June till September. 



Salmon do not stay long in a place, neither do 



