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held in high estimation by the French, who pay as much 

 for it as they do for salmon ; T but as they eat kelts with 

 a relish and call them salmon, one need not be surprised 

 at anything they do in that way. Bull-trout seldom take 

 the salmon fly well, but now and then they will come at 

 minnow and worm. There is a disputed point as regards the 

 bull-trout, whether or no he is the veritable ' whitling ' 

 of the Border when in his grilse state. This I cannot of 

 course decide beyond question, but I am quite sure that I 

 have in the same river caught both the grilse bull-trout, 

 and the ordinary white or salmon-trout, each of about a 

 pound or a pound and a half in weight, and that the 

 natives call them both whitling, so which is really entitled 

 to the name I do not pretend to say. The flies for both 

 these fish on the Border rivers are the same, and are called 

 whitling flies : they are similar to the ordinary sea-trout 

 and white- trout flies used elsewhere. As to the style of 

 fishing, there is nothing peculiar or decided in it, for one 

 almost as often catches sea-trout with the common trout 

 fly, when trouting, as with the small-sized salmon fly when 

 salmon fishing, or with both, as the regular orthodox sea- 

 trout fly. More bull-trout are caught on a big March brown 

 or an extra-sized wall fly or Greenwells' Glory in the Tweed 

 than on any other flies I know of. 



The sewin, of Wales, is the bull-trout proper, but the 

 usual confusion has been created by the frequent presence 

 no doubt of the salmon-trout also. In fact, in Wales 

 everything that is not either a salmon or brown-trout, is 

 a sewin. Hence much diversity in the history and cha- 

 racter of the sewin. 



The white-trout is one of the gamest fish that swims. 

 Like a champion of the light weights, he is all activity : 



1 And so do the English, for that matter , for I have often seen large 

 bull-trout sold in the London shops for prime Scotch salmon. 



