. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . A PARK. *There is nothing in the water, says Norris, that surpasses a Grilse 45- AAIERICAN FISHES. in its symmetrical beauty, its brilliancy, its agility, and its pluck. Ihave had one of four pounds to leap from the water ten times, and higherand further than a Sahiion. Woe to the angler who attempts, withoutgiving line, to hold one even of three pounds ; he does it at the risk of hiscasting line, or his agile opponent tears a piece from its jaw or sn
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . A PARK. *There is nothing in the water, says Norris, that surpasses a Grilse 45- AAIERICAN FISHES. in its symmetrical beauty, its brilliancy, its agility, and its pluck. Ihave had one of four pounds to leap from the water ten times, and higherand further than a Sahiion. Woe to the angler who attempts, withoutgiving line, to hold one even of three pounds ; he does it at the risk of hiscasting line, or his agile opponent tears a piece from its jaw or snout in itsdesperate effort to escape. Mr. Atkins calls attention to the fact that the great run of Grilse whichis so prominent a feature in Canada and Europe is almost entirely absentin the rivers of the United States, the fish not returning until they havebecome adult. In rivers where Grilse are found, the Salmon always pre-cede them in their ascent, for the former do not enter fresh water untiltoward the end of A SMOLT. Who can wonder at the anglers enthusiasm over a Salmon fresh runin love and glory from the sea? Hear Christopher Norths praise of aperfect fish : She has literally no head ; but her snout is in her shoulders. That isthe beauty of a fish, high and round shoulders, short waisted, no loins, butall body and not long of terminating—the shorter still the better—in atail sharp and pointed as Dianas, when she is crescent in the sky. Mr. Kilbournes painting in Scribners Game Fishes of North Ameri-ca represents a thirty-pound fish drawn to a scale of one-fourth. Thelargest on record was one of eighty-three pounds, brought to London in1821 ; the Scotch fish rarely exceed twenty-five pounds. Periey speaksof a sixty-pounder taken long ago in the Restigouche ; in 1852 many offorty, and one of forty-seven pounds, were caught in the Frederick Curtiss score for York River, Canada, July 7, 1871, showsnine fish ranging from seventeen to thirty-four a
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