SALMON. 1E 
frost drove him last year, and once more he tries 
all his old flies. The sea-trout are not slow 
to take his lures, and many a stout fight is made 
in the darkness. More often than not, the fisher 
knows every hole of the pool, and fight as it 
may, the game fish cannot shake him off’ He 
mechanically leads the fish in the darkness, and 
can hardly discern it, even as he takes it off 
the hook. At the coming of day, his creel is full 
of beautiful fish, every one of which has tried 
his skill, but has eventually come to his basket. 
If the fish have run early, this fine sport some- 
times lasts for a couple of months, and for the 
salmon or trout-fisher it finishes the season. 
It requires a practical fisherman to at once 
detect the sea-trout. Speaking generally, it 
resembles its cousin the brown brook-trout, except 
that one is done in bluish-silver, the other in 
brown and gold. The water in which it happens. 
to be for the time being, has much influence 
upon its colour, and the silvery sea-fish becomes. 
more like the trout in proportion as it stays in 
fresh water. The white-trout, which run in 
autumn, range from half-a-pound, to three, four, 
and five pounds in weight; fish exceeding this 
being uncommon. The food of this species 
varies considerably, according to haunt and 
season. In the sea it is an omnivorous feeder, 
