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salmon in that river. The small grilse sometimes take the fly freely, 

 but the full-grown bull trout very rarely takes fly or bait of any kind, 

 except when it is in the kelt state, when it is ravenous. It reaches 

 fifteen and twenty pounds in weight. 



The salmon trout does not usually grow to be more than six 

 pounds in weight, and is very abundant in some of the northern 

 rivers. Pennell says it is the " ' Fordwich trout ' of Izaac Walton, 

 so named from a village on the Stour near Canterbury, where it 

 still maintains its reputation for being 'rare good meat.'" 





