320 BULL TROUT. 



Sir Samuel Wilson. Published by Edward Stanford, 

 ^5, Charing Cross, London, 1879. 



BULL TROUT. 



(^Salmo eroLv.) 



Local names : Grej/ Trout, Round-tail, Coquet Bull Trout of the 

 Tyne, Scurf of the Tees. Welsh: Brech-ij-dail, or '^ Fall of 

 the leaf.'" German : Meerforelle. French : Trinte de Mer. 



The Bull Trout is most abundant in the rivers on 

 the north-east coast of England, more especially in the 

 Coquet, Tweed, Tyne, Tees, and Wear. 



The bull trout is certainly greatly inferior in flavour 

 to the salmon, his flesh being white and comparatively 

 tasteless. In the Newcastle market it is w^orth some 

 threepence a pound less than the salmon proper. 



I am told that the fishwives occasionally clip the 

 round tail of the bull trout quite square, and sell it for 

 true salmon. French people seem to prefer bull trout to 

 salmon. 



The Paris markets will take any number of bull 

 trout, especially at the back end of the year, and after 

 the English close time commences. « 



Hard facts and diligent observation, carried on for a 

 series of years, especially by my friend, Mr. W. R. 

 Pape, lessee of the Duke of Northumberland's fisheries 

 at Warkworth on the Coquet, proved indubitably that 

 the best run of bull trout is late in the year, when the 

 nets are off; the same thing happens yearly on the 

 Tweed and on the Tyne, and the consequence is that 

 in these rivers, I am sorry to say, the bull trout have, 

 and still are obtaining, much too great a pre-eminence 

 over the salmon proper. In my late ofiicial reports, I 



