Modern science, however, recognises two "races" only, _Salmo trutta_, the sea-trout proper, and _Salmo cambricus_ or _eriox_, the bull-trout, or sewin of Wales, which is most prominent in such rivers as the Coquet and Tweed. ❋ Various (N/A)
They scarcely ever exceed, indeed rarely attain to, a weight of five pounds; and such as go beyond that weight, and range upwards from eight to twelve pounds, are generally found to pertain to _Salmo eriox_, the noted _bull-trout_ of the Tweed. ❋ Various (N/A)
Although salmon and salmon streams form the subject and "main region of his song," he yet touches truthfully, albeit with brevity, upon the kindred nature of sea-trout, which are of two species -- the salmon-trout and the bull-trout. ❋ Various (N/A)
The bull-trout, for some obscure reason, is not at all responsive to his efforts, except in its kelt stage. ❋ Various (N/A)
The bull-trout is a strong fish and grows to a great size and it is a pity that it is not of greater sporting value, if only to make up for its bad reputation as an article of food. ❋ Various (N/A)
But it is not a difficult matter to place a small trout cross-wise in the jaws of a bull-trout, and to this day we are not quite certain. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
The Head maintained that he had hooked the small fish and was about to draw it to shore when the bull-trout leaped out of the water, caught the small fish, and held on grimly. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
What piscine tragedies it conceals, with those murderous, greedy, and powerful assassins, the bull-trout, pursuing fish, as I have seen them, almost into the landing-net! ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
Lying on the top of one of our packing-cases was a great bull-trout. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
On the second day, I think it was, I landed a bull-trout that weighed nine pounds, and got it with a six-ounce rod. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
With the exception of one of the guides, who caught a four-pound bull-trout there, repeated whippings of the lake with the united rods and energies of the entire party failed to bring a single rise. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
But it is the bull-trout which falls victim, as a rule, to the troll. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
I will have a confused summer, for I have as yet no home that I can dwell in; but I hope by-and-by to have some fine fun there with you, fishing in Saint Mary's Loch and the Yarrow, eating bull-trout, singing songs, and drinking whisky. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1911)
'I spent a lot of my youth trying to get that bull-trout. ❋ Unknown (1898)
They have been down all the morning at the pool where the alder is, trying to catch that bull-trout. ' ❋ Unknown (1898)
I feel sure that if he had tried to catch the bull-trout he would have fallen in. ❋ Unknown (1898)
'You see, dear, I've loved Billy boy since the days when he tried to catch the bull-trout with a string and a bent pin, and I held on to his pinafore to prevent his tumbling in. ❋ Unknown (1898)
COLONEL, gaily firing his dart, 'Did you get the bull-trout, Billy boy?' ❋ Unknown (1898)
"She was good big bull-trout, yes, and she'll fry good in the pork to-night." ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)
"Yes," said Moise, "those bull-trout, she'll got big in that eddy, him -- sometimes we'll caught him seven, height, eleven pound long." ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)
