Trout and Salmon

British trout occur in two types. The non-migratory brown trout and the migratory sea trout. The variations in the brown or common trout are numerous and caused by the differing waters and feeding habits. Brown trout with pink flesh weighing nearly forty pounds have been caught in deep lakes in Scotland and Wales. Trout living in fast flowing moorland streams may only weigh half a pound and have white flesh.

The sea trout (or salmon trout) spends its early life in a river but between the ages of one and three years old it goes down to the open sea. Until then it is identical with the brown trout but in the sea it grows much faster and returns to the river to spawn, often it seems with a common trout. While in the sea it takes on a silvery colour and its flesh becomes pinkish.