sea-trout

We are writing this article, gorging on abalones and mussels, digging clams, and catching record-breaking sea-trout and rock-cod in the intervals in which we are not sailing, motor-boating, and swimming in the most temperately equable climate we have ever experienced.

FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR 2010

Here on the Wear, the ending of steelworks and shipbuilding at the estuary's mouth in Sunderland has led, unintended consequences, to the declogging of the muddy toxins of the river's mouth: salmon and sea-trout were able to get back in, to get instinctively upriver and to spawn.

From toxic sewer to natural haven, the river Wear's return from the dead 2011

When I thought we had about a dozen mullets and sea-trout gilled, I waded into the warm water to begin taking them out.

F&S Classics: Death in the Moonlight 2003

They had descended one sultry evening on the little inn at Kyle Rhea ferry; and while Tom and another of the party put their tackle together and began exploring the stream for a sea-trout for supper, the third strolled into the house to arrange for their entertainment.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

The flies used are never smaller than our sea-trout size, and they are more often larger; but the best anglers catalogue you as a lubber if you wield anything heavier than a boy's rod.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

This is one of the common phases of sea-trout fishing; it just now showed that the fish were in a different temper from that of the pre-luncheon era, when there was no moving them, whether truly or falsely.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

In all there were ten specimens of salmon, sea-trout and brook-trout mounted and we found no great difficulties.

Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham

There had been some fine fish taken during the weeks when we were occupied in sea-trout fishing.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

While he was operating I had fixed up my most useful portmanteau-rod with its fly-fishing tops, and with a sea-trout collar, and a small, silver-bodied salmon fly cast over the open spaces.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

I have looked over some fly books in active service, and when some day I find myself in that log-house in the Maine woods which I have in my notebook, I will back my selected half-dozen of our English, Irish, and Scotch sea-trout and lake flies against the best of the Orvis favourites.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior