grilse

Which fish can be alevins, parr, smolts and grilse at various stages in their life cycle?

A very unofficial report suggests there has been an increase in the percentage of salmon, rather than grilse, running the Clyde.The actual number might not have changed.

"I didn't bother to change my tackle as I did not anticipate encountering anything bigger than a grilse.

Visiting angler Stuart Macfarlane, a regular on the Riverdale Hall Hotel beats on the North Tyne, caught eight salmon, two grilse and six seatrout over his four days fishing.

Big River has a prolific fishery, too, but most of its fish, maybe 80 to 90 percent, are grilse (small salmon).

Anglers were out in force on the River Wear this week after a two-foot lift of water ( rapidly clearing off over 24 hours ( had salmon, grilse and sea trout on the move.

Grilse, kelt, parr and smolt are all terms for which fish during various stages of development?

When I returned to the hot spot after lunch the visitors were still without a fish but I was soon into a small grilse.

He caught the two grilse - young Atlantic salmon returning from sea - weighting 2kg and 2.6kg, respectively, while fishing off shrimp bait at the Galway Weir.

At the time of Huntsman's writings, the conventional practice was to identify the sea-ages of salmon as 1 1/2-sea-y (also termed "grilse," not legal in the commercial catch), 2 1/2-sea-y (the bulk of the commercial catch) and 3 1/2-sea-y (very large salmon, legal but rare).

J Hatton caught a 3lb 8oz sea trout and a 3lb grilse, while W Barnes landed a 4lb sea-trout on a Mepps.

I fish the East Ranga river in Iceland every year, where any salmon which is not a grilse or under 10lb to 12lb is kept first of all in a cage on the river bank and then taken away to a breeding pond.