SALMON AND TROUT 
Tay in Scotland, and it is interesting to note that, as 
recently as October, 1922, a 64 pounder was caught in 
the same river by Miss J. Ballantine who had to play her 
fish for nearly two hours. 'The previous record for a 
Salmon caught in Scotland by a lady was the 47 pounder 
taken from the River Spey by Miss Phyllis Spender Clay. 
My friend Lord Lytton, now Governor-General of 
Bombay, and a great lover of Nature, once gave me a 
graphic description of a large Salmon which he hooked in 
Norway, but which, after he had played it all day, he 
eventually lost towards evening after several hour’s hard 
work. ‘The line, running for so long a time between his 
fingers, severed the flesh to the bone, and after such 
an ordeal I am sure the reader will agree that the 
distinguished angler-statesman deserved a better reward 
for his labour. 
Trout.— Salmo trutta (Fig. 32). When it is stated that 
one well-known authority includes no less than twenty 
or more so-called species of Trout as occurring in 
British waters, the reader will recognise the difficulties 
with which an author is confronted in a popular book of 
this kind. Of the making of species there seems to be 
no end, and we have little, or no, patience with those who 
never seem happier than when turning a variety into 
a species for no apparent reason worth considering. 
Lists, after all, are poor compensations for life-histories, 
and the complete story of no one animal or plant has yet 
been told. Sir Robert Ball once said that ‘“‘a whole 
lifetime devoted to the study of the Common Daisy would 
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