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though occasionally a solitary one is caught in the 

 Tweed. Martin, in his "History of the Western 

 Islands of Scotland," 2d edition, 1716, thus speaks of 

 it. " The grey lord, alias "black-mouth, a fish of the 

 size and shape of a salmon, takes the limpet for a 

 bait. There is another way of angling for this fish, 

 by fastening a short white down of a goose behind 

 the hook; and the boat being continually rowed, 

 the fish run greedily after the down and are easily 

 caught." 



BULL-TROUT, SEA-TROUT, AND WHITLING-, 



The bull-trout, sea- trout, and whitling -the two 

 former being probably of the same species begin 

 to run up the rivers about May, and return to the 

 sea in September. They will all take both fly and 

 worm, and are to be angled for in the same manner 

 as for the salmon, and with similar flies dressed on 

 smaller hooks. The whitling is most abundant in 

 the rivers which discharge themselves into Solway 

 Frith; and many are caught every season in the 

 Tweed and most of its tributary streams. In the 

 northern counties of Scotland, they are called fin, 

 nocks, and are not so large as those caught in the 

 streams or on the border, where they are frequently 

 caught sixteen inches long, and weighing two 

 pounds; in Aberdeen and Perthshire they seldom 

 exceed a foot. 



