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A HUGE NORWEGIAN TROUT CAUGHT 
BY AN AMERICAN. 
A correspondent very kindly sends us a cut¬ 
ting from a Norwegian paper, Tidcns Tegn, of 
November 8, in which is figured and described 
an enormous trout. He is good enough also to 
send a translation of the letterpress, which runs 
as follows: “An Enormous Trout, Caught by an 
American Millionaire in Norway.—We reproduce 
a picture of a king among trout, which has re¬ 
cently been caught in the Olden River in Nord- 
fjord by the multi-millionaire and artist, Mr. 
W. H. Singer, Jr., of Pittsburgh. It was caught 
on a fly, and took Mr. Singer a good hour to 
land, and it weighed well and truly a good 22 
kilos (50 lbs.). It is not only as a sportsman 
that Mr. Singer has for the last fifteen years 
visited this country. Through his excellent pic¬ 
tures of Norwegian mountain, fjord, and dale, 
he has succeeded in making his countrymen in 
America better acquainted with ours, and his pic¬ 
tures find a ready sale there. Mr. Singer decided 
yesterday to extend his visit to Norway over the 
winter—on account of the war.” 
Our correspondent asks whether, supposing the 
weight to be accurately recorded, this trout does 
not set up a record. Putting in another proviso, 
that it really was a trout (S. fario), we should 
say that it certainly does. We put in this pro¬ 
viso because there seems to us something salmon¬ 
like about the picture. The tail looks as if it 
had a “wrist” to it, a point which anglers who 
have had to tail out salmon and big sea trout 
will appreciate. It would, however, be rash to 
offer a definite opinion on the strength of a not 
very clear newspaper reproduction of a photo¬ 
graph, in which the position of the eye, shape of 
jaw, etc., are very imperfectly to be made out, 
and we hope that the fish was a trout as diag¬ 
nosed. Presumably it has been preserved, in 
which case the question (if there is a question) 
will no doubt be definitely settled. Salmon have 
of course been taken for trout before, especially 
in autumn, one historic specimen being the 23- 
pounder found dead in the Thames and thought 
for a long time to be the chief of all Thames 
trout. It was set up, and is now, we believe, in 
the museum at Weybridge. That fish had not 
even the merit of being a belated Thames salmon. 
In his account of it some years ago, Mr. J. E. 
Harting showed that it was probably a derelict 
specimen from some fishmonger’s slab. 
Fifty pounds would, of course, be a colossal 
weight for any trout, whether of fresh water or 
of the sea, but it is not perhaps beyond the 
region of possibility. Our correspondent gives 
details of another very big one which weighed 
40 lbs., and was caught in 1889 by the late Mr. 
Mitchell, C. B., Consul-General at Christiania. 
This, he says, “was taken at the head of the 
Bandak Vand many years before it became the 
tourist route to the West Coast and before steam¬ 
ers were seen there. This fish is well remem¬ 
bered by the inhabitants of Triset, where Mr. 
Mitchell was staying.” The British Isles, so far 
as we know, have never produced a trout so big, 
but the huge ferox caught by Mr. Muir, of Inis- 
trynich, on Loch Awe, in 1866 came very near 
it, being 39% lbs. That fish, which formed the 
topic of an interesting correspondence in the 
Field not so very long ago, was preserved, but 
the case unfortunately perished in a fire about 
ten years back. The famous trout from Loch 
Stennis (29 lbs.) holds the second place so far 
as this country is concerned, and that from 
Lough Owel (26 lbs.) the third. The Loch 
Stennis trout was one of the estuarine type. A 
sea trout of 50 lbs. would be perhaps less re¬ 
markable than a brown trout of that weight. 
There is, we believe, a specimen of the bull trout 
type in the Natural History Museum collection 
which weighed 40 lbs., and there seems no rea¬ 
son why bull trout, which rival salmon in their 
normal growth, should not occasionally equal 
them in their abnormal weights. Probably Nor¬ 
way has some very big sea trout on record.— 
The Field. 
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