A shooting trip to Kamchatka . OUR CAMI ON THE SANDSPIT (IETROPAVLOVSK). help, and though his culinary qualifications weredecidedly below the average, his constant willingnessand unabated good humour rendered him a mostuseful companion. A magnificent salmon was broughtinto camp during tlie evening and purchased by usfor a few kopecks. It certainly weighed betweenforty and fifty pounds. At that time of year (June)we were at the height of the tcliavyclia season. SALMON 117 The tchavycha {Saluio oriciiialis), the finest of theSalmonidce, is proper to Kamchatkan waters and theOkhotsk Sea, and come
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . OUR CAMI ON THE SANDSPIT (IETROPAVLOVSK). help, and though his culinary qualifications weredecidedly below the average, his constant willingnessand unabated good humour rendered him a mostuseful companion. A magnificent salmon was broughtinto camp during tlie evening and purchased by usfor a few kopecks. It certainly weighed betweenforty and fifty pounds. At that time of year (June)we were at the height of the tcliavyclia season. SALMON 117 The tchavycha {Saluio oriciiialis), the finest of theSalmonidce, is proper to Kamchatkan waters and theOkhotsk Sea, and comes up in shoals to the mouths. w: -f^m A KORTY POUNDER. of the rivers about the end of May, being the first fishto make its appearance ; it seems closely akin to theEuropean salmon, and attains enormous diniensions—eighty pounds, so I was told. Its flesh is of a palered colour and its flavour quite excellent. Next come ii8 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA the so-called oo//si (Sa/iuo co/Zar/s), a species of sea-troLit, which ascends the rivers to their head-watersand frequently remains in the lakes, returning tothe sea the following spring. These were the onlyfish which would take the spoon ; all our anglingefforts were useless with regard to the other numerousspecies. The Jiaiko [Oiicoj-fiviic/nis /aovcip/ia/its) andthe oa?-biis//a, or humpback {OucorhvncJnts protcus),arrive almost simultaneouslv in lulv and the be^innino•of August, and are not supposed to return to the seaafter spawning. Another species, the krasnaia or redfish, is caught by the natives in great quantities in theKamchatka and Bolshaia rivers. Its
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