20 ABT OF ANGLING. 



you may chance to tempt the Salmon to rise to an 

 artficial fly. But the most propitious and critical 

 moments are undoubtedly when, clearing after a 

 flood, the water has turned to a light whey, or 

 rather brown colour ; when the wind blows pretty 

 fresh, approaching almost to a mackarel gale (if not 

 from the north), against the stream or course of the 

 river; when the sun shines through showers, or 

 when the cloudy rack runs fast and thick, and at 

 intervals discovers the fine blue ether from above. 

 In these situations of the water, and of the weather, 

 you may always depend upon excellent sport. 



The Thames Salmon are reckoned to exceed in 

 quality those of any other river ; but those in the 

 rivers Severn and "Wye are excellent in their kind, 

 and are first in season of any in England. 



The young SALMON FRY, or SAMLETS, are ex- 

 tremely voracious, and in April and May will afford 

 the young angler excellent diversion, as he will fre- 

 quently have a fish at every fly at the same throw. 

 Although they are delicious eating, a moment's 

 reflection of the injury done to the river, by the 

 destruction of so many young fry, ought to deter 

 the angler from continuing his sport when he finds 

 a shoal of them. 



