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WHITE-TROUT FISHING. 



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 

 difficulty which an angler, who is not also a 

 thorough ichthyologist, finds in identifying the 

 various species of migratory Salmonidce, is the 

 great variety of local names often applied to one 

 and the same fish. On the Tweed, for instance, 

 the Salmo eriox, which is of course most widely 

 known by its proper name of Bull Trout, is simply 

 " The Trout ;" on the Coquet it commonly goes 

 by the name of " The Salmon," and it is believed 

 to be identical with the Sewin or Sewen of Wales. 

 To anglers, by far the most interesting species is 

 the Salmon Trout. 



Salmon Trout fishing when good is perhaps, 

 at any rate for a time, the most fascinating of all 

 fishing. Indigenous in many of our best Salmon 

 and Bull Trout rivers, and frequently abounding 

 in streams which produce neither the one nor the 



