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sale for them. They are sold in the open market, too, all through the 
spring, and anglers are allowed to catch them. In some rivers the 
autumn months are the best for 
catching them, while in others they 
take more freely in the spring. 
In the Tay and the Earn spring 
is the best time. On one occasion, 
on the roth March, I caught with 
fly eighty of them, averaging three- 
quarters of a pound in weight. 
The largest, which scaled one and 
a quarter pounds, is the largest 
pe hiavewevermcauohts lin |ruly. + 
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August, and September thousands ie 
of small whitling are caught and = 
called sea-trout. These would be ei 
betrer siete im tthe river, as. they, 2 
are little better than smolts. If eS 
this were done the number of sea- e 
trout would soon greatly increase. 
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From what has been said it 
will be seen that the habits of the 
sea-trout differ widely from those 
FIG. 
of the salmon, and these differ- 
ences may ibe summed up as 
follows: —(1) The  sea-trout 
comes into fresh water nearly a 
year) before athes orilse ‘of “the 
salmon. (2) it feeds im fresh 
water, which the salmon does not. 

(3) It does not spawn on its first 
Fetunn toy tresin, water, | After the 
whitling goes to sea it remains there for three or four months, and 
comes up as a sea-trout from 1 to 24 Ibs., according to the length of 
