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and ylb. or 81b. would be about the usual size in a 

 river like the Coquet. Except when they are 

 kelts or when they have just entered a river they 

 are bad risers, but they take a spinning-bait a little 

 better than a fly. Being big and strong withal they 

 are best fished for with salmon tackle. I have an 

 idea that, like sea-trout (which on many rivers in 

 low water are principally caught at night), they 

 would rise very much better after dark. At the 

 approach of twilight they seem to wake up, and I 

 have then seen them rushing about on shallow flats 

 just like brown trout on the feed. Also if a salmon- 

 fisher catches a bull-trout on the fly at all, it 

 generally happens in the evening. But I have not 

 had an opportunity of trying for them at night while 

 the weather was still reasonably warm and the 

 undertaking feasible, and night-fishing has never 

 made a very strong appeal to me. 



