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every salmon usually returns to the same river in which it 

 was bred, as young pigeons taken out of the same dove-cote 

 have also been observed to do. 



And you are yet to observe further, that the he-salmon 

 is usually bigger than the spawner ; and that he is more 

 kipper, and less able to endure a winter in the fresh water 

 than she is ; yet she is, at that time of looking less kipper 

 and better, as watery, and as bad meat. 



And yet you are to observe, that as that there is no 

 general rule without an exception, so there are some few 

 rivers in this nation, that have trouts and salmons in season 

 in winter, as it is certain there be in the river Wye, in 

 Monmouthshire, where they be in season, as Camden 

 observes, from September till April. 3 But, my scholar, the 

 observation of this and many other things, I must in 

 manners omit, because they will prove too large for our 

 narrow compass of time, and therefore I shall next fall 

 upon my directions how to fish for this salmon. 



And for that, first you shall observe, that usually he stays 

 not long in a place, as trouts will, but, as I said, covets still 

 to go nearer the spring-head ; and that he does not, as th 

 trout and many other fish, lie near the water-side, or bank 

 or roots of trees, but swims in the deep and broad parts o 

 the water, and usually in the middle, and near the grounc 

 and that there you are to fish for him, and that he is to b 

 caught as the trout is, with a worm, a minnow, which som 

 call a penk, or with a fly. 



And you are to observe, that he is very seldom observe< 

 to bite at a minnow, yet sometimes he will, and not usuall; 

 at a fly ; but more usually at a worm, and then mos 

 usually at a lob or garden worm, which should be we! 



