grilse

Since then, she has taken more than 700 salmon and 1,400 grilse.

Joe then caught a grilse and lost two other fish.

If it's a grilse, you may keep it and continue to try for a salmon.

Until that last afternoon with Kevin, my only action had come from grilse.

Elsewhere in Canada, only grilse may be kept - no more than seven of them at the most - during an entire season.

Back at the camp, we learned that Pam had brought a grilse to net.

One must also stop fishing each day after four fish, whether grilse or salmon, have been brought to the net.

A grilse is a salmon, most often a male, that returns to its home river after only one year at sea.

We moved on to Tom's, where we saw a grilse jump, but did nothing.

One must also stop after two fish, grilse or salmon, or both, have been set free.

On two occasions, grilse made passes at my fly but missed it.

He gave me one of his two grilse.

June also sees the arrival of the summer grilse.

And any time a grilse jumps five times trying to throw the hook, you have had a good day of fishing.

He rattled the ice in his glass and responded nonchalantly, "Four grilse."

He was also done if his first fish was a grilse that he kept.

A grilse is a small - about 4 pounds -early-returning salmon, usually a male.

We raised nothing and saw one fish, a grilse that disdainfully broke water three feet from the canoe.

If he caught and released two large salmon he would still be entitled to one grilse.

By the time I arrived on July 8, only two salmon and nine grilse had been caught.

The one fish I did bring to the net was a bleeding, deeply-hooked grilse that we killed.

Fishing is largely for salmon, grilse and sea trout.

In most provinces, only two grilse - small, early-returning salmon - a day, and usually 10 a season may be kept.

In New Brunswick, the daily limit is two grilse and no salmon.

These first-year returners, called grilse, typically weigh about five pounds.