DCHP-1 Online

sea trout

• 1 in the Atlantic Provinces, a variety of trout that spawns in fresh-water rivers.

  • c1963  After you pass a body of water known as Fullerton's Marsh, a good spot for sea trout, you arrive at Mount Herbert
  • 1830  It is remarkable for the immense shoals of trout (usually called sea trout) which frequent it in spring and autumn.
  • 1872  Sea trout frequent more or less all the rivers in North America. These fish are not the same species as the sea trout of the English and Irish coast; they are shorter and thicker fish, more spotted on the back, and with a yellowish tinge on the belly.
  • 1958  Sea trout are beginning to put in an appearance in Newfoundland rivers.

• 2 on the Pacific Coast, the steelhead.

  See also: steelhead  

  • 1947  Right now in English Bay you will find the Sea-trout beginning to run and both blue-backs and cohoe being caught.
  • 1960  "Steelheads. Sea trout. That big one must be about fifteen pounds."