10 SEA FISH; 



until about the month of May, when the first flood 

 which comes drift-laden and turbid, foaming and 

 bounding down from the glens among the hills, carries 

 with it the young salmon destined in their turn, 

 guided by instinct marvellous and inscrutable, to 

 revisit, first as a grilse and then a salmon, the 

 identical stream in which it first saw light, where in 

 turn its young are brought forth link by link in 

 Nature's endless chain. 



The season of the year at which salmon visit 

 estuaries and the mouths of particular rivers, of which 

 places we shall chiefly have to speak, will vary 

 considerably, being, as some writers have thought, 

 influenced by the temperature of the water; but 

 whether this alone, or the early or late appearance of 

 insect or crustaceous food, causes this irregularity of 

 their movements, it is hard to determine. 



In many localities the bull and salmon trout 

 afford excellent sport to the fisherman, taking flies, 

 spinning, and other baits readily. These fish, like 

 the salmon, visit the various rivers and estuaries in 

 order that their spawn may be deposited in such 

 places as their instinct teaches them are adapted for 

 its protection and well doing. The outfit for the 

 fisherman who intends devoting his attention to the 

 capture of the fish above mentioned, at the mouths. 

 of tidal rivers and estuaries, many of which are 

 renowned for the sport they afford, will differ con- 

 siderably from that recommended .for sea-fishing, 



