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being caught, and those of course with the hook. 

 They are called here Silver-whites, and also Black- 

 tails, from a dusky-blue spot in the centre of the 

 tail-fin. They are a beautiful little fish, resembling 

 much small Sea-Trout ; and if not young Sea- 

 Trout, I know not what they are." 



The Don, the Spey, the Tay, the Annan, and 

 the Nith, all produce the Sea-Trout in great abun- 

 dance, as also some of the rivers of Devonshire, 

 where it is called a Truft". It is found in the 

 Severn, and in the Cumberland and Cornwall 

 streams. On the banks of the rivers falling into 

 the Solway Frith, it is termed in its grilse stage a 

 Hirling; and in Wales and Ireland, where it is 

 very numerous, it commonly goes by the name of 

 White Trout. 



White-Trout fishing on some of the Scotch and 

 Irish lakes is grand sport, and, like other lake- 

 fishing, has an advantage in that, a boat being 

 usually employed, ladies who are not strong 

 enough to wield a Salmon-rod or face the diffi- 

 culties of a scramble down a rocky river-bank, are 

 able to take part in it. In speaking of ladies as 

 White-Trout fishers, I am reminded of a disgraceful 

 practical joke of which I was, I fear, the chief in- 

 stigator and abettor, and of which a very charming 

 young lady, and a capital angler to boot, was one 

 of the victims. The scene was Loch Maree. 

 When staying with my friend Mr. Edwin Darval 

 at the Poolewe Inn, on fishing designs intent, we 



