THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



BULL TROUT. Salmo Fario. Variety. 



There is also in Northuznberland a Trout called a Bull Trout, s 

 of a much greater length and bigness than any in these southern 

 parts. And there are, in many rivers that relate to the sea, 

 Salmon Trouts, as much different from others, both in shape and 

 in their spots, as we see sheep in some countries differ one from 

 another in their shape and bigness, and in the fineness of their 

 wool. And, certainly, as some pastures breed larger sheep ; so 

 do some rivers, by reason of the ground over which they run, 

 breed larger Trouts. 



SALMON TROUT. Salma Trutta. 



Xmv the next thing that I will commend to your consideration 

 is, that the Trout is of a mors sudden growth than other fish. 

 Concerning which, you are also to take notice, that he lives not 

 so long as the Perch, and divers other fishes do, as Sir Francis 

 Bacon hath observed in his History of Life and Death. 



And next you are to take notice, that he is not like the 

 Crocodile, which if he lives never so long, yet always^thrives till 

 his death : but 'tis not so with the Trout ; for after he is come to 

 his full growth, he declines in his body, and keeps his bigness, 



* This Trout i- a!--o found in t!u- south of Scotland, The river Tarr.i.? 

 in Dnmfriea-shire i? proverbially f:imtd for it. S. 



