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SEA TEOUT. 



GREY TROUT. BULL TROUT. SEA TRUFF. PUGTROUT. 



Yarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 71. Jenyns; Manual, p. 423. 

 Fisherman's Magazine, vol. i, (No. 6.) 



This fish is generally, but irregularly distributed throughout 

 the United Kingdom, but it is only at intervals that it is met 

 with in anything like abundance, and then only in the rivers 

 of the north of England, Scotland, and in Ireland. Comparatively 

 only a few shew themselves, and those of the smaller size, in the 

 summer, although we are told that in July and August, 1864, 

 which was a remarkably dry season with deficiency of water in 

 the rivers, they were in large numbers in the Tweed, so as to 

 be much more abundant than the Salmon, this latter fish being 

 through that summer remarkably scarce. The Sea Trout is said 

 to breed in the autumn, but this is doubtful as a general 

 habit, from the fact that the usual time at which they enter the 

 rivers from the sea for breeding is not earlier than November, 

 and an example taken in the Fowey river in Cornwall, from 

 which our figure and description were taken, obtained on the 

 third of December, had the grains of roe of large size, so that 

 one of them which was measured was the fifth of an inch in 

 diameter. 



At the time of the migration of this fish, as fishing with a 

 rod is little practiced and nets are not in use, the interest it excites 

 is less than is felt for some other kinds, and its habits in 

 consequence are less observed; but we believe that in passing 

 up the river they do not put forth such efibrts to get up to the 

 higher stations, or overcome difficulties, as the Salmon is known 

 to do, and that the roe is shed in somewhat deeper water. Yet 



