Salmon Trout? (S. trutta)
The first truly big American trout that I ever caught was a brown. The first New Zealand trout that I ever caught was a brown. The first Tasmanian trout that I ever caught was a brown. The first Russian trout that I ever caught was a brown. The first English trout that I ever caught was a brown. The first…beginning to see a pattern here?
I love brown trout. They have figured huge in my angling life, and for me, a heavily spotted, hook-jawed brown, with flanks of butter and fins of gold, will always be a poster-trout for fly fishing.
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