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Sea -Trout 



In a dry season sea-trout collect in great numbers at the mouths 

 of small streams, and seem desperately eager to obtain a little fresh 

 water. When in this excited state I have tried to catch them in the sea, 



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but could not persuade them to look at a fly. It is quite different, how- 

 ever, in Shetland, where sea-trout often take a fly quite freely in the 

 sea. Sea-trout run much faster than salmon, and being smaller they can 



