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Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.

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Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.

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An objectionable elderly woman.

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Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!

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To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

Trout and salmon are plentiful in the river.

The streams in the neighbourhood are in favour with trout fishermen.

It is well stocked with trout, and the steep declivities of the lower valley furnish red wines of excellent quality.

The Teme abounds in trout and grayling, and Tenbury is in favour with anglers.

The Truckee river and the western lakes abound in trout and black bass.

Of freshwater fish the trout of the mountain streams and the eels of the coast lagoons may be mentioned.

It is built on a picturesque promontory which separates the waters of Green Bay from Little Bay de Noquette, and its delightful summer climate, wild landscape scenery and facilities for boating and trout fishing make it a popular summer resort.

The rivers yield trout, salmon (in the Weser) and crayfish.

The speckled trout thrives in many of the streams.

It looked like a Rainbow Trout.

The lakes, ponds and streams afford some of the best trout fishing in the country, and many of them also abound in pickerel, pike, perch, black bass and land-locked salmon.

Of game, deer, wild boars, hares, snipe and partridges are fairly abundant, while the mountain streams yield trout of excellent quality.

The speckled trout, which abounds in nearly all of the mountain streams and lakes, is the principal game fish.

The Elbe produces excellent pike, salmon and eels, its tributaries trout in considerable quantities, while the marshy ponds lying on the left bank furnish a good supply of carp, a fish held in great esteem by the inhabitants.

The islands are highly cultivated; deer and other game abound, and trout are plentiful in the mountain streams. A majority of the inhabitants are Christians.

The mountain streams often contain small but good trout.

These loughs and the smaller loughs, with the streams generally, afford admirable sport with salmon, sea-trout and brown trout, and Ballina is a favourite centre.

The woods and fields in the neighbourhood abound with English song-birds, and the streams are stocked with trout; while the orchards in the town and suburbs are famous for English kinds of fruit, and hops are extensively cultivated.

Game is plentiful, and the rivers abound in fish, specially trout.

Fish are not naturally very abundant, but the mountain brooks are the finest home for trout, and these as well as bass, cat-fish and some other varieties have been used to stock the streams.

Salmon, lampreys and eels are caught in some of the larger rivers; trout abound in the streams of the northern provinces; but many fresh-water fish common elsewhere in Europe, including pike, perch, tench and chub, are not found.

Of those peculiar to Australian waters may be mentioned the arripis, represented by what is called among the colonists a salmon trout.

There are Federal hatcheries at Swanton (for pike perch and yellow perch) and at Holden (for trout).

The streams of both territories yield excellent trout and crayfish; salmon, sturgeon and sterlet, from the Danube, are netted in the Save.

The Exe, Barle, Lyn and other streams, traversing deep picturesque valleys except in their uppermost courses, are in favour with trout fishermen.

It is navigable by vessels of 50 tons as far up as Bridge of Earn, and is a notable fishing stream, abounding with salmon and trout, perch and pike being also plentiful.

Many of the lakes and rivers have been stocked with trout and salmon or bass; some, with smelt; the fresh waters of the state also contain pickerel, perch, pouts, eels, suckers, dace, sunfish and shiners.

The first observation of a trypanosome is usually ascribed to Valentin (55), who in 1841 announced his discovery of certain amoeboid parasites in the blood of a trout.

In searching for the Red river he came to the South Platte, marched through South Park, left it by Trout Creek pass, struck over to the Arkansas, which he thought was the Red River for which he was searching, and, going south and south-west, came to the Rio Grande del Norte (about where Alamosa, Conejos county, Colorado, is now) on the 30th of January 1807.

The fishery includes salmon in the Oder, trout in the mountain streams, and carp in the small lakes or ponds with which the province is sprinkled.

Perch, sunfish, trout, bass, pike and pickerel abound in many of the streams. Yellow perch are especially plentiful in the lakes on the Pocono plateau.

There were eight hatcheries in 1910 and the number of fish distributed from these during 1908 was about 662,000,000; they consisted chiefly of pickerel, yellow perch, walleyed pike, white fish, herring, blue pike, trout and shad.

Smith, to occur among a breed of albino trout, which breed true and are reared in the State fish-hatcheries of America.

Excellent fishing is to be had here, chiefly for trout.

The salmon fishery of the Rhine is very productive, and trout abound in the mountain streams.

The Moy is a notable salmon river for rodfishing and its tributaries and the neighbouring lakes contain trout.

Macroom has trade in corn-milling, leather-work and dairy produce, and is a good centre for salmon and trout fishing.

Owing to the restricted period allowed for hunting, deer and small game are abundant, and the brooks, rivers, ponds and lakes are well stocked with trout and black bass.

The streams are well stocked with rainbow and brook trout.

The rivers and lakes are well supplied with fish, and the mountain streams abound with small trout.

As soon as the ice breaks up in the delta innumerable shoals of roach (Leuciscus rutilus) and trout (Luciotrutta leucichthys) rush up the river.

The Wye, the Usk, the Dee, the Dovey, the Teifi, the Towy and most of the Welsh rivers and lakes are frequented by anglers for salmon and trout.

Near the city is one of the five fish-hatcheries maintained by the state; it is largely devoted to the propagation of trout and other small fish.

The lake, one of the most beautiful of the so-called "finger lakes" of central New York, abounds in lake and rainbow trout, black bass, pickerel and pike, and there are many summer cottages along its shores.

The rivers and lakes are generally well stocked with fish, such as salmon, trout of various species, gwyniad and vendace (especially in the north), pike, eels, perch of various species, turbot, bream and roach.

Fish are scarce in inner Persia; salmon trout and mud-trout are plentiful in some of the mountain streams. Many underground canals are frequented by carp and roach.

If it is a risky matter to plant out the robust young fry of trout under an age of three months, it would seem to be an infinitely more speculative proceeding to plant out the delicate week-old larvae of sea-fishes in an environment which teems with predaceous enemies.

Among fishes, white fish, lake trout, perch, herring, sun-fish, bass, sturgeon, pickerel, suckers, German carp and fresh-water drum abound in the lakes.

Nearly one-half both in quantity and value are taken from Lake Michigan, and, although as many as twenty kinds are caught in considerable quantities, more than 90% of the value of the catch consists of trout, herring, white fish and perch.

Trout have been introduced into several rivers and have become acclimatized.