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bull trout

[ bool trout ]

noun

  1. a char, Salvelinus confluentus, formerly considered the same species as Dolly Varden but later reclassified.


bull trout

noun

  1. any large trout, esp the salmon trout
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bull trout1

First recorded in 1645–55
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Example Sentences

This beautiful and unruly valley, cradling the North Fork of the Flathead River, is where my grandfather gamboled in his youth, pulling bull trout large as limbs from pure waters, during an era when fires were extinguished on sight.

The cases he argued led to the listing of the bull trout—a char that haunts any angler who has thrown a line into the Blackfoot—as an endangered species.

Bull trout use the river for migration, and the water has been used for drinking water, irrigation, and livestock water.

And of bull trout, which easily passes for salmon with the unwary, it is well that a word should be said.

Bull trout very rarely takes fly or bait of any kind, except when it is in the kelt state, when it is ravenous.

By the connivance of the local landowner every specimen of the bull trout was killed as it entered the river from the sea.

The bull trout is now, in fact, strictly preserved under the salmon laws.

Even experienced fishermen are capable of confounding the bull trout with its nobler brother of the streams.

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