CHAPTER XV 



THE BULL-TROUT AND THE SALMON-TROUT 



The BuU-Trout, or Sea-Trout— The Salmon-Trout, or White Trout— Habits 



— Angling for Salmon-Trout. 



Coming now to consider the various species of trout, 

 migratory and otherwise, we enter upon a group of species 

 and varieties of extreme dubiety. While entertaining profound 

 respect for systematic ichthyologists in general, and for Dr. 

 Giinther in particular, I am quite unable to share his belief in 

 the constancy of the ten species which he recognises among 

 British trout, and I propose to deal with them as in three 

 species only, noticing the principal of the numerous local or 

 racial varieties of each. 



The BuIl'Trout, or Sea^Trout {Salmo eriox) 



Fins. 



As in the salmon. 



Teeth. 



As in the salmon. 



In adhering to the title conferred by Linnaeus upon the 

 largest of our migratory salmonoids except the true salmon, I 

 am aware that I must incur adverse criticism from some modern 

 ichthyologists, but I feel that it is safer to retain a term so long 

 associated with a creature with which practical fishermen are 

 perfectly familiar, rather than adopt one about the application 

 of which there seems to be considerable uncertainty. So far 

 as I have been able to follow the maze of description from 

 the pens of many able writers, it has been proposed to give 



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