152 Sea- Erout 
different in colour, having red spots, and being much redder all over. 
Judging from the specimens of these sea-trout which I saw, I have no 
hesitation in stating that they are exactly the same as we have on the 
Tay. It is thus most confusing that in almost every locality the same 
fish should be called by different names, at different seasons, simply 
because they change their colour with the seasons. I wonder what an 

Fic. 148.—Gill of a 20-lb. Salmon which has spawned and returned as a clean fish, showing maggots on 
gill, which is partly eaten away. 
ornithologist would say if we called the ptarmigan, which is white in 
winter, yellow grouse in the breeding season and grey grouse in the 
autumn, simply from its colour ! 
The sea-trout in summer is silvery, in autumn grey with more 
spots showing, and in the spawning season red. | do not think it 
advisable to encourage large sea-trout in the clean state for sport- 
ing purposes, for when they grow large they seldom take fly, while in 
the kelt state they rise freely and will take almost any bait. I attribute 
