144 Sea- Trout 
In a dry season sea-trout collect in great numbers at the mouths 
of small streams, and seem desperately eager to obtain a little fresh 
water. When in this excited state I have tried to catch them in the sea, 
The Tay. 19th August 1907. 
3-lb. Sea-trout. 
41. 
FIG. 

but could not persuade them to look ata fly. It 1s quite different, how- 
ever, in Shetland, where sea-trout often take a fly quite freely in the 
sea. Sea-trout run much faster than salmon, and being smaller they can 
