. Short sketches of the wild sports & natural history of the highlands. Hunting; Natural history. SPEARING SALMOK OR BURNING THE WATER CHAPTER VI Salmon-fishing—Salmon ascending Fords—Fishers—Cruives—Right of Fishing— Anecdote—Salmon-leaps—Historj' of the Salmon—Spearing Salmon—River Poaching—Angling—Fly-making—Eels—Lampreys. During the spring and summer it is an amusing sight to watch the salmon making their way up the river. Every high tide brings up a number of these fish, whose whole object seems to be to ascend the stream. At the shallow fords, where the river spreading over a wide su
. Short sketches of the wild sports & natural history of the highlands. Hunting; Natural history. SPEARING SALMOK OR BURNING THE WATER CHAPTER VI Salmon-fishing—Salmon ascending Fords—Fishers—Cruives—Right of Fishing— Anecdote—Salmon-leaps—Historj' of the Salmon—Spearing Salmon—River Poaching—Angling—Fly-making—Eels—Lampreys. During the spring and summer it is an amusing sight to watch the salmon making their way up the river. Every high tide brings up a number of these fish, whose whole object seems to be to ascend the stream. At the shallow fords, where the river spreading over a wide surface has but a small depth of water, they are frequently obliged to swim, or tather wade (if such an expression can be used), for perhaps twenty yards in water of two inches in depth, which leaves more than half the fish exposed to view. On they go, however, scrambling up the fords, and making the water fly to the right and left, like ducks at play. When the fish are numerous, I sometimes see a dozen or more at once. They might be killed in these places by spears, or even a stick, and indeed many a salmon does. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original St. John, Charles William George, 1809-1856. London, John Murray
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