AN UNUSUAL TROUT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 15

AN UNUSUAL TROUT

-To'anglers used to the broad, and • Seep measurements of brown trout, a trout caught on' Tuesday evening in the'lower part of the Hutt River by Mr. E. H. Nimmo on the bully, during a fresh iin the river looked so like an ,Atltatic salmon that an authority was consulted. The'fish /was ■ silvery and i* perfect health, but long and of slim build.; It: is definitely not an-Atlantic salmon, nor indeed a salmon at all, but pf6bably a. .• sea-run specimen of. Loch' Loven trout, a lake variety, a similar specimen haying been caught by Mr; A. Seed some time ago near tho; mouth of: the Horokiwi. Fairly. largo black spots on it and the silvery sheen -with ' a :fairit violet lustre - certainly gave a salmon effect, heightened by the forked ftaily and'the fine body lines. A .thick' . wall to the belly, and the, fact that the flesh covered it all round, instead of the thickest flesh being on the back, made, it look very unlike the well-known brown, trout. : . . ?Atlantic, salmon were liberated1 intensively in1 the1 Wanganui by the late Mr. L. F. Ayson, but 90 far.little has been sees, of them! ' \