130 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 



CHAPTER XL 



WHITE-TROUT FISHING. 



Different species of White Trout and their habitats. Theory of 

 White-Trout flies — "Green," "brown," and "yellow" typical 

 Trout flies, with the addition of tinsel, recommended also for 

 White-Trout. Observations of fly-fishing and spinning for. Rod 

 tackle, &c. 



Under the name of White or Sea Trout are often 

 included in ordinary parlance several species which are 

 properly distinct, as the Salmon Trout and Bull Trout 

 {Salmo trutta and Salmo eriox), and also others the specific 

 positions of which are undetermined or disputed. One 

 cause of the difificulty which an angler, who is not also a 

 thorough ichthyologist, finds in identifying the various 

 species of migratory SalmonidcB^ is the great variety of 

 local names often applied to one and the same fish. On 

 the Tweed for instance, the Salmo criox, which is of 

 course most widely known by its proper name of Bull 

 Trout, is simply " The Trout ;" on the Coquet it com- 

 monly goes by the name of " The Salmon," and it is 

 believed to be identical with the Sewin or Sewen of 



