. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. t * 98 AMERICAN when intentionally confined in frosh-wator lakes; as well as by tho enormous rapidity of growth manifested in the Salmon smolts, which, having been a year and a half in fresh water, attaining a length of seven or eight inches, and a weight of about so many ounces, after a visit of a few months to the sea, return not only reinvigoratcd in con- dition, but increased in bulk to seven or eight poun
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. t * 98 AMERICAN when intentionally confined in frosh-wator lakes; as well as by tho enormous rapidity of growth manifested in the Salmon smolts, which, having been a year and a half in fresh water, attaining a length of seven or eight inches, and a weight of about so many ounces, after a visit of a few months to the sea, return not only reinvigoratcd in con- dition, but increased in bulk to seven or eight pounds weight. This accounts very readily for the superior size of what Mr. Smith designates as a distinct species of Sea Trout, which is, in reality, only the Brook Trout on his return from the sea. The circumstances of its condition speak for themselves. Who ever saw a Salmon fresh-run from the sea, of whatever size or awe otherwise than in excellent condition and of rare beauty ? Who ever took a spent fish, of the same species, that was not ugly, lean, discolored and uneatable ? The silvery whiteness and the bluish back of the Sea Trout, as described above, is peculiar to all fresh-run fish of this family; and in Scotland a skilful Salmon-fisher will tell you, at a glance, how many tides a fish has been in the river, merely from seeing him leap at a fly or a minnow. All the other marks, cited by Smith as characteristics, are merely signs of condition, as the brilliancy of the coloring, the breadth and thickness of the fish, and the comparative smallnoss of the head, which is produced by no alteration whatever of that portion of the body, but by the increase and development of the body itself, which at this sea- son and stage of the animal, is equal in its circumference to one-half its length. It is well known and undisputed in Long Island, that the Pond-fish and Creek-fish, as they are termed, pass to and fro between the fresh and the salt-water ; and although the Creek-fish ar
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