Sea-Going Trout 321 



salmon, until the absence of aerial flight enlightens 

 but disappoints the rodster, who is absorbed and 

 perhaps attuned to fever point in search of his 

 first salmon. 



Along the New England shores, particularly 

 those of Massachusetts in Barnstable County and 

 in the salt estuaries and bays of Long Island, on 

 both the north and south shores, the river-trout 

 will be found in salt water, remaining there for 

 some months and returning to fresh water when 

 the spawning instinct impels them. These fish 

 also undergo to some extent the same change 

 in form and coloration as prevails among the 

 sea-trout of more northern sections, whose visits 

 to fresh waters seems to occur only twice a year, 

 once in the early summer months and again in 

 the fall to spawn, after which returning to the 

 sea and remaining there through the winter. In 

 many northern localities, however, they are found 

 in the bays and at the mouths of rivers during 

 nearly the entire summer months, coming in and 

 falling back as the tide ebbs and flows, and 

 rarely ascending the streams. In Massachusetts 

 these salt-water migrators are called " salters " ; 

 in all other sections, " sea-trout." 



There are one species and four subspecies of 



