. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ,50 %\xt %xzt&sx ami jljxca-ismmi:. April 21 Grilse not Young Salmon. Mr John Anderson, a prominent fish cttl- tnrist of Scotland, in a letter to Seth Greene says: On reading yoor able reports I see many things to admire, and really yon have done â¢wonders. But two things I see omitted from yonr reports, viz., the regularity and stages that the salmon enter our rivers during the season. From experience and observation, I find there are five distinct runs of salmon from the sea to the rivers annuallyâtwo of grilse and four of trout. The -winter, spring, summ
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ,50 %\xt %xzt&sx ami jljxca-ismmi:. April 21 Grilse not Young Salmon. Mr John Anderson, a prominent fish cttl- tnrist of Scotland, in a letter to Seth Greene says: On reading yoor able reports I see many things to admire, and really yon have done â¢wonders. But two things I see omitted from yonr reports, viz., the regularity and stages that the salmon enter our rivers during the season. From experience and observation, I find there are five distinct runs of salmon from the sea to the rivers annuallyâtwo of grilse and four of trout. The -winter, spring, summer and autumn, and last, though not least, the greyschule run of salmon. Then the early and late grilse. Then the winter, spring, summer and autumn trout. All are different in size and appear- ance, and if you liked to have the particulars 1 could with pleasure send them to you. Have you in your great experience studied the salmon question in all its parts? I hold a very particular view from many of my fel- low countrymen here. It has always been said and considered that the grisle is the young of the salmon; but in my investigation I have proved them not to be. They are, no doubt, nearly allied, but different. Perhaps this to you may seem something new; but a few in this country are beginning to change their views, from what they have seen and heard. Indeed these fish so nearly resemble one another that the as- sertion takes one by surprise. But if you have not already, look carefully into it and you will find a few distinctive marks between these fish, to prove what Iallege.^ All salmon, as a rule, obtained in our rivers from one and one-half pounds weight up to 6eventy-six pounds, have the distinctive mark; viz., an oval scale and a crescent tail. The grilse from one pound up to twenty-four pounds, as I have seen them weigh, have a diamond scale and a mackerel tail. In some of our rivers forty years ago it was no un- common thing to see, in a morning's fishing, among 300
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