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bull trout

• a char, Salvelinus malma spectabilis, characterized by reddish-orange spots on an olive-green skin, found in western lakes and rivers and on the Pacific coast.

  See also: Dolly Varden trout   

  • 1905  Bull-trout is distinguishable by its "bull-dog" jaw.
  • 1948  . . . he caught . . . a bull trout that weighed over eighty pounds.
  • 1965  Progeny of these trout swim the Kananaskis Lakes: native cutthroat and bull trout.