60 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN RIVER ANGLING. 



number and form of the spots thereon ; the form of 

 the tail, forked or even, and the like, he found were not 

 to he depended on, and hence the various names of 

 common trout, sea trout, salmon trout, alpine trout, 

 and numerous others, apply only to differences arising 

 from sex, age, season, the character of the waters, and 

 the sorts of food which they can procure. These 

 differences, however, are often very considerable, even 

 among trouts in the same waters, or at least in the 

 mountain brooks and the rivers into which these 

 brooks run, as I have observed myself, when angling, 

 in numerous instances, and as is well known to every 

 angler. 



Spawning Seasons, and Haunts of Trout. 



It is of much importance for the angler to attend to 

 the spawning time of trout, as, contrary to what occurs 

 in other fish, it is never good when about to spawn, 

 but in some rivers, such as, according to Bowlker, the 

 Arrow in Herefordshire, the Teme in Radnorshire, 

 and Clunwater, Shropshire, there sue barren females 

 which continue good all the winter. 



In some rivers, trout begin to spawn in October, but 

 November is the chief month of spawning. About 

 the end of September they quit the deep water, to 

 which they had retired during the hot weather, and 

 make great efforts to gain the course of the currents, 

 and seek out a proper place for depositing their roe. 

 This is always done on a gravelly bottom, or where 

 gravel and sand are mixed among stones, near the tails 



