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during the season, "between Berwick and Peebles; 

 but he who wishes to enjoy the sport in its greatest 

 perfection must go farther a-field, and locate him- 

 self for a month "beyond the Tay, or in the wilds 

 of Cunnemara. With respect to salmon-fishing in 

 Wales, two recent authors, who "both profess to 

 speak from experience, disagree ; the one telling the 

 angler that he must expect no good salmon-fishing 

 in the Principality, while the other represents it as 

 excellent in more streams than any angler who 

 commences salmon-fishing when he comes of age, 

 and hangs up his rod when about seventy, devoting 

 three months in each year to the sport, and fishing 

 each stream thoroughly can hope to get through in 

 his life-time. 



"'Tis really painful here to see 

 Experienced doctors disagree." 



Fresh run salmon, that is, clean fish from the 

 sea, begin, in small numbers, to enter most rivers 

 in the north of England and in the south of Scotland, 

 about January, if the season be mild; their numbers 

 increasing during the spring months. In severe 

 winters, and when the streams are full from the 

 melting of the snow, their appearance is propor- 

 tionately delayed, as the salmcn has an aversion to 

 snow broth. In some rivers their appearance is 

 from a month to six weeks later than in others ; and 

 there are streams which they never enter till April, 

 though they ascend others which discharge them- 

 selves into the same estuary in January. 



