The grilse rapidly develop into the adult salmon; and some of them, as in the case with the grilse of the Pacific salmon, are capable of reproduction.
Young spawning malegrilse follow the changes which take place in the adult, although often not more than half a pound in weight.
Had the old man taken one false step he would have entered on a struggle for life compared with which my own adventure after hooking the grilse would have been insignificant.
The grilse rose sharply at the lure, but I "struck" too late.
All these things can only be understood by the fisherman who has played in a Highland stream a wild and powerful little grilse fresh in from the salt water.
Lavender was most successful next time, however, with a pretty little grilse of about half a dozen pounds, that seemed to have in him the spirit and fight of a dozen salmon.
Such was Ringan Scouler, the landlord of the Grilse and Gridiron--for we forgot to say, in its proper place, that the culinary implement just named appropriately figured at one end of the board.
On his entrance, the stranger, perceiving the respectable quality of the guests assembled in the kitchen of the Grilse and Gridiron, reverently doffed his bonnet, and apologised for intruding on the "honourable company.
Grilse and Gridiron, good-naturedly, and hurrying out of the apartment, to escape the further banter of the facetious churchman.
Leagues up the great river, after mounting several noisy but not difficult rapids, the grilse came to a halt for the first time in a deep and spacious pool which swarmed with his fellows.
Up the front of this column the grilse presently flung himself, striking the water about a foot from the top.
After that revival of memory the crafty grilse inspected every fly before he rose to it, to see if any slender, almost invisible line were attached to it.
Only he now swam with a certain majesty, ignoring the grilse and smaller salmon who swam and fed beside him; for he was of splendid, constantly growing stature, of the lords of his kind.
Every day there were new arrivals at the spawning-beds, and among them the strong and wary grilse soon found a mate.
Very clearly the cunning grilse understood what it all meant.
The pool was thronged with grilse and full-grown salmon, with here and there a school of graceful whitefish or a group of sluggish suckers, whom he ignored.
But our grilse kept right on, making unerringly for his mighty native stream.
As the big grilse journeyed he went on growing daily, till by the time he found himself back in the waters of the Gulf he was a good six pounds in weight.
His companions were nearly all grilse like himself, varying in weight from two and a half to four or five pounds, with here and there a big, adult salmon journeying majestically among them.
There is good Salmon fishing at this place when the tide is out, and on the flow of the tide he will take capital Grilse and Sea-Trout.
Sea-trout and grilse run up the Allan in spring and autumn, which afford good sport.
It would be as well to try very small gaudy flies occasionally, as you may rise a grilseduring the time you are fishing for white-trout.
The sand and cinnamon flies are also good, and the red spinner; the winged larva is an excellent fly below the Bridge, allowed to sink a little beneath the surface when fished with, grilse and sea-trout will take it.
Dressed on the smallest sized grilse hook, it will on dark days and evenings, and in full water kill sea trout and large common trout in every locality.
There are grilse and sea-trout run up it out of the bay of St. Andrew's, in the spring and autumn.
A small grilseor sea-trout hook, for small rivers in either Scotland or Ireland, and also in the rivers of Wales, where it is a native dun colour among the anglers.
I have been told by a gentleman residing at Forfar, that the North Esk was sometimes swarming with salmon and grilse to an incredible extent.
The number of salmon and grilse taken from the Ewe is insignificant as compared with the quantities captured in the bag-nets.
After August the fish are mostly dark in colour, though I have known a bright grilse bagged as late in the season as 11th September.
On lifting the rod I found there was a fish on, and I soon grassed a fresh run grilse of 7 lbs.
The grilse and more salmon come in June and July, especially July, and fish continue running until the breeding season in November; indeed, some say there are always fresh-run fish in the water.
Skye and West-coast grilseare short, thick, and small-headed, and proportionally more abundant.
The slaughter of sprats," he says, "is as decided a case of killing the goose with the golden eggs as the grilse slaughter carried on in our salmon rivers.
During this stage of existence the salmon, being a carnivorous fish, rapidly develops itself from the grilse to the adult state.
At that time the fish is about half an inch in size, and presents such a singular appearance that no person seeing it would ever believe that it would grow into a fine grilse or salmon.
The Tay yields the largest grilse and salmon, but the Spey follows fast in her wake; Tay fish sometimes weigh sixty pounds.
And thus there is the extraordinary anomaly of fish of the same hatching being at one and the same time parr of half an ounce in weight, and grilse weighing four pounds.
After depositing their eggs the grilse remain some time in the fresh water, when they again go to the sea.
Walbran, some light grilse and trout casts, and the smallest grilse flies I had by me.
You'll be glad to have a bit of white fish after so much grilse and sea-trout.
Indeed, these brilliant dashes and runs and summersaults soon began to tell The gallant little grilse was plainly getting the worst of it.
The slaughter of sprats," says he, "is as decided a case of killing the goose with the golden eggs as the grilse slaughter carried on in our salmon rivers.
Various fish, whilst in the grilse state, have been marked to prove this; and at every migration they returned to their breeding-stream with added weight and improved health.
We already have Lady Grilse Ellington," he said, "and I am sure to-morrow evening we shall have Lady Salmon Ellington.
Lady Grilse and Lady Salmon were already spoken of by the very clever names that Mr. Osborne had found for them, and he further seemed inclined to christen Lord Ellington as Lord Stag.
Gladys caught that grilse only this afternoon," he said.
Mr. Osborne calls her the fishmonger, because she really supplies us all with fish; we are now eating the grilse she caught this afternoon.
Mr. Osborne proved to be a true prophet, and it was indeed Lady Salmon and Lady Grilse who came back from the river about tea-time.
You called her Lady Grilse (I see, do I not), because she had caught one.
He turned half-left as he spoke, to pick up Lady Ellington, so to speak, for Lord Dover had crossed over to Gladys, with whom he was again discussing the grilse she had been so fortunate as to catch that afternoon.
In the grilse stage, the fish is capable of depositing eggs.
After spawning in the fresh water the grilse again seeks the sea in the autumn, and when its second stay in the ocean is over it returns after a few months’ absence as the adult salmon, weighing from eight to ten pounds.
It isn't merely grouse andgrilse that are bringing him here.
It was rather an animated little party; for if the Twelfth was as yet some way off, there were plenty of speculations as to what the Garra was likely to yield in the way of grilse and sea-trout.
Go away and get out your fly-book, and take Mr. Meredyth down to the Garra, and see if you can pick up a grilsebefore dinner.
Thus a few descending March smolts give a few ascending May grilses; while our April and May swarms of smolts yield our hordes of grilse in June and July.
Some of them are much larger than small salmon; but by the term grilse I mean young salmon that have only been once to sea.
There is much in the present volume to interest even those who are so unfortunate as to have never seen either, grilse or salmon, except as pupils or practitioners in the silver-fork school.
Of all those natural causes which counteract the increase of salmon fry, and consequently of grown grilse and adult salmon, Mr Scrope considers that the "furious spates" which so frequently occur in Tweed, are the most destructive.
They were only smolts in the immediately preceding spring, and are becoming grilsefrom week to week, and of various sizes, according to the length of their continuance in the sea.
The reasons why grilseseldom show themselves till the summer is well advanced, are very obvious, now that we have become conversant with their true history.
Mr Young informs us that sea-trout are seen spawning a week earlier than grilse, and grilse a week earlier than salmon.
This must have a considerable effect on the future supply of grilse in the Tweed.
Trout of a pound weight, and over, are not uncommon, while the chance of a grilse adds excitement to the sport.
The Grilse is by many believed to be a distinct species, whilst others stoutly maintain that it is a young Salmon.
This would allow grilse to pass, and fill the river with breeding fish.
March a Grilse Kelt which weighed three and a half pounds, that he marked it with a brass wire, and let it go, and that in the March following he caught it again a Salmon of seven pounds weight.
That the Grilse are Salmon is proved I think sufficiently by the evidence given before the House of Commons.
I am not sure whether this fish is what is called the Grilse in Scotland, or whether it is the Sea Trout of that country; it is a handsome fish, weighing from one and a half to three pounds.
The water was likely enough, and the sudden splash of a leaping grilse added to its likelihood.
By this time the sun was high in the heavens, and we returned to camp--Rodman with a salmon of seventeen pounds and a grilse of five pounds.
The grilse is wonderfully active and spirited, and will often give as much play as a salmon of three times his size.
I got a grilse of four pounds, which made a smart fight for fifteen minutes, and Rodman hooked another, but lost him.
That evening we went again to the pool, and I killed a small but very active salmon of nine pounds, which fought me nearly an hour: Rodman got a grilse of five pounds.
Lavender was more successful next time, however, with a pretty little grilse of about half a dozen pounds, that seemed to have in him the spirit and fight of a dozen salmon.
MacRummle also preferred to make one more effort to catch that grilse which had risen so often to him of late, but was still at large in the big pool under the fall.
Strange to say the rod was not broken; but when I scrambled ashore, I found that the grilse was gone!
On this day it began to dawn upon me that the water had become too low for a grilse to remain here any length of time.
Occasionally you may lose a fish this way, but in the long run you gain, and after a little practice you will get into the trick of bringing the grilse on his side submissively into the net.
The stream, of course, charged down upon The Rocks in gathering strength, and for the first fortnight we were always sure of a grilse or two.
The medium dressed silk trout-line on a grilse winch was about a hundred yards in length, and quite sound, and on a twisted gut trace I had attached a 3-in.
If the grilse were running at all, they no longer stopped in the old haunts; but the neck of the lower pool gave us fish occasionally.
The fish was still on when he regained his feet and tightened up, but the relaxation had been fatal, and the grilse presently escaped.
Yet there were salmon and grilse in all the streams, splashing in the slow oily sweep that crept under the wood yonder.
The bent grilse rod described an arc that only a salmon could make.
Two salmon and five grilse were at that time my total for odd hours of fishing during part of the week, and I had fished with the Durham Ranger and Butcher (No.
We may now proceed to consider the final change,--that of the grilse into the adult salmon.
In the spring of 1841, he marked a number of spawned grilse soon after the conclusion of the spawning period.
Taking his "net and coble," he fished the river for the special purpose, and all the spawned grilse of 4 lb.
During both these seasons, Mr Young informs us, he caught far more marked grilsereturning with the form and attributes of perfect salmon, than are recorded in the preceding lists.
On their return from the sea, he caught many of these quondam grilse converted into salmon as before.
The existence in the rivers during spring, of grilse which have spawned, and which weigh only three or four pounds, is itself a conclusive proof of this retardation of growth in fresh water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grilse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cetacean; dolphin; fish; fry; kipper; plankton; porpoise; salmon; shark; sponge; whale
