Herein we will first begin with the Peall, Trowt, and Sammon, because
they partake of both salt and fresh water, breeding in the one, and
liuing in the other.
The Trowte and Peall come from the Sea, betweene March and Midsummer,
and passe vp into the fresh ryuers, to shed their spawne. They are
mostly taken with a hooke-net, made like the Easterne Weelyes, which
is placed in the stickellest part of the streame (for there the fish
chiefely seeketh passage) and kept abroad with certaine hoopes, hauing
his smaller end fastened against the course of the water, and his
mouth open to receiue the fish, while he fareth vp by night.
The Sammons principal accesse, is betweene Michaelmas and Christmas:
for then, and not before, the ryuers can afford them competent depth.
A time forbidden to take them in, by the Statute thirteene of Richard
the second: but if they should bee allowed this priuiledge in
Cornwall, the Inhabitants might vtterly quit all hope of good by them,
for the rest of the yeere. They are refettest (that is fattest) at
their first comming from the Sea, and passe vp as high as any water
can carrie them, to spawne the more safely, and, to that end, take
aduantage of the great raynie flouds.
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