SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



It is claimed that salmon, during the 

 period of their stay in a river and after hav- 

 ing fulfilled their mission, lose twenty-five 

 per cent of their weight. 



The very large salmon, those from 

 forty to fifty pounds, are cock-fish, gen- 

 erally old bachelors, gourmets and gour- 

 mands that have remained in the sea where 

 the food is good and plentiful rather than 

 undertake the up-stream struggle with per- 

 haps little or no food, and with domestic 

 troubles awaiting them at their journey's 

 end. 



For example, the 61 pound cock-salmon 

 taken in the Tay in Scotland on July 13th, 

 1902, proved by its scales to be 7 years and 

 2 months old, and the scales also showed 

 that it was this salmon's first return from 

 the sea. 



It is claimed that as far as rivers are con- 

 cerned the life of an Atlantic salmon is 8 

 years. No fish have been taken of a greater 

 age. 



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