Crossword-Solution: GILSE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

You are a great fisher, no doubt, Mr McAllister?" "Well, not just that, but I do manage to fill a basket now and then, an' whiles to land a g'ilse." "A gilse!" cried George in surprise, "what is that?" "It is a small salmon--" "Oh! you mean a grilse," interposed Mr Sudberry.

About the middle of the last century, the fish used chiefly to be conveyed to London by small vessels of about forty tons burthen, belonging to Harwich and Gravesend, engaged by the London dealers; the fresh-caught salmon and gilse were conveyed in wells in the hold, but a large portion was sent pickled in kits.

The growth of salmon, from the state of salmon fry or smolt, to that of salmon peal and gilse, has been shown to be very rapid, and the increase of weight, during each subsequent year, is believed to be equal, if not to exceed the weight gained within the first.