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SIZE AND AGE OF TEOUT 



STEWART in his great treatise evidently refers 

 with most experience and knowledge to his 

 southern or border streams. This becomes 

 evident when he speaks in a general way of 

 the size of trout being dependent upon the 

 size of rivers and feeding qualities. He 

 instances some more northern rivers as ex- 

 amples of streams where ' trout are neither 

 numerous nor large' (v. p. 19). Thus he 

 instances Spey and most Highland streams. 

 He is unfortunate in his selection of a type 

 in Spey. Spey holds very large trout over 

 all its reaches, and on its upper beats yields 

 excellent trout-fishing in the season. In 

 another place he assigns a curious reason 

 for the scarcity of trout in certain rivers. 

 He says : ' Small rivers produce more trout 



