40 ANECDOTES OF FISHES, 



eggs, and the male fish was following to ensure 

 the propagation of the species. 



Sporting Mag. June, 1835. 



The largest salmon Mr. Pennant ever heard of 

 weighed seventy-four pounds; in 1795, one was 

 brought to Billingsgate, which weighed within a 

 few ounces of seventy pounds, and was the larg- 

 est ever brought there ; it was bought by a fish- 

 monger, and sold by him at one shilling per 

 pound. One taken near Shrewsbury, in 1757, 

 weighed thirty-seven pounds, and is recorded in 

 the British Chronologist ; many have been taken 

 with the fly weighing forty pounds. 



Johnson's Sportsman's Cyclopedia. 



A fish of sixty pounds weight was caught a 

 few years ago in the Wye, by T. Evans, Esq. and 

 presented to the Duke of Beaufort. 



They have been taken in the Tay about 

 seventy pounds weight, in the Tweed and Clyde 

 between fifty and sixty pounds ; in America they 

 seldom exceed seventeen pounds, indeed every 

 river has its distinct fish, as evidently as the 

 variety of our beeves and horses. 



Hansard's Trout and Salmon Fishing. 



Mr. Bainbridge, in his " Fly Fisher's Guide/' 

 observes : In trout fishing, when salmon frequent 



