brown trout

noun

brown trout

a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America Compare sea trout

First recorded in 1885–90

He began by dumping out into a worthless and landlocked bass-pond every brown trout in the hatchery.

Nosing about, Sue found a two-pound brown trout that had been caught and crushed in the grinding ice and cast up on the bank.

The pools of the Fell becks abound at such times with speckled brown trout, and are visited by another poacher—the otter.

It is clean-cut in shape, perhaps rather lither than the brown trout, and when large it is not so deep.

Beside a brown coated stone in the shadowed stream a brown trout watches for the puffs that slay the May-flies.

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