28 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



The salmon delights in the most rapid streams, 

 with gravelly bottoms; he is justly termed by 

 some anglers the king of fresh-water fish. 

 When hooked, he requires to be gently treated, 

 as Sir Walter Scott says, by giving him line, but 

 not too freely ; in which case you are sure of 

 your fish. The salmon tribe becomes at one pe- 

 riod of the year a river, and at another a sea fish. 

 The salmon leaves the sea for the rivers in the 

 summer or autumn, according to the heat of the 

 season, and surmounts most surprising obstacles 

 to attain its object; having fulfilled which, equal 

 anxiety is displayed to return to the sea. The 

 flies for salmon should be made gaudy and large ; 

 this fish is particularly fond of the horse-leech fly. 

 In imitating this fly, behind each wing whip the 

 body of the fly with gold or silver twist. Editor. 



Salmon Leaps. Professor Agassiz observes : 

 The caudal, or tail fin, is attached to a very fleshy 

 root, and is moved by powerful muscles. This 

 elastic fin to these fish is a most powerful lever ; 



