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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 Truff. 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 

 Hiding; 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 



