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Sea -Trout 



difterent in colour, having red spots, and being much redder all over. 

 Judging from the specimens of these sea-trout which I saw, I have no 

 hesitation in stating that they are exactl}- the same as we have on the 

 Tav. It is thus most confusino- that in almost everv localit\- the same 

 fish should be called by different names, at different seasons, simply 

 because they change their colour with the seasons. I wonder what an 



FKi. 148. — Gill of a 20-lb. Salinon which has spawned anil iLturiieil as a clean hsli, shnwinL; maL^gcits on 



i;ill. \\ hich is parlh" caLen awa\'. 



ornithologist would say if we called the ptarmigan, which is white iii 

 winter, yellow grouse in the breeding season and grey grouse in the 

 autumn, simply from its colour ! 



The sea-trout in summer is silvery, in autumn grey with more 

 spots showing, and in the spawning season red. I do not think it 

 advisable to encotirage large sea-trout in the clean state lor sport- 

 ing purposes, for when they grow large they seldom take fly, while in 

 the kelt state they rise freely and will take almost any bait. I attribute 



