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trout
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n.
(pl. same or trouts)
a chiefly freshwater fish (genera Salmo and Salvelinus) of the salmon family, found in Eurasia and North America and highly valued as food and game.
ORIGIN: late Old English truht, from late Latin tructa, based on Greek trōgein ‘gnaw.’
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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TROUT SPOKESFISH JUST A BIG FISH STORY.(Living Today)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/31/1988; 700+ words
; ...Staff writer We may be in the thick of New York's trout fishing season, but to Tommy Trout it's just another vacation for a traveling public-relations fishmonger. Tommy Trout is the spokesfish for Clear Springs, based in...
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TROUT FISHING
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 3/5/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...was trying in vain to trick one of the trout finning in the current plainly in view...stocked streams aren't for everyone. Some trout fishermen in Virginia are happiest when...casting delicate flies for tiny native brook trout or stream-bred rainbow trout. "They...
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PENNSYLVANIA TROUT ANGLERS BIG ON RECYCLING
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/31/2006; 700+ words
; ...following news release: Pennsylvania's trout anglers are big on recycling - fish that...University studies found that the state's trout anglers have high catch rates and high release rates as well. In fact, most trout caught in Pennsylvania's waters are released...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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TROUT SEND US MESSAGE ABOUT OUR WATER QUALITY
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 2/11/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-11-2001 TROUT SEND US MESSAGE ABOUT OUR WATER QUALITY...Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife stocks trout in many of our streams, lakes, and ponds...inhospitable water quality. In some places, trout survive throughout the year, and in a...
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Apache Trout: On the Brink of Recovery.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Endangered Species Bulletin; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...successive generation. Brook and brown trout, though not able to hybridize with Apache trout, are fierce competitors for food and space. Before long, the non-native trouts displaced the Apache trout. Historically, the Apache trout occupied...
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 "Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)")
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Trout season is less than two weeks away
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 3/27/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Most of us do not consider Illinois as a "trout state," but the most popular venue operated...Natural Resources is its spring catchable trout program. Newly-appointed IDNR director Marc Miller confirmed the 2009 spring trout season in Illinois will begin at 5 a...
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TROUT WILL RISE WITH FALL.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/26/2002; 700+ words
; ...Byline: ROB STREETER - In the world of trout fishing, there are two seasons. We are...the spring, when the eagerly anticipated trout-fishing season starts on the first day...once the warm weather of summer hits, trout fishing is put on the back burner. Then...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Trout fishing in winter.(SPORTS)(Dennis Anderson)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 2/11/2005; 700+ words
; ...who live here, winter fishing for lake trout ranks near the top. Yes, paddling is...But neither compares to the tug of a lake trout hitting a spoon or jig dropped through...Wilderness. Historically a pretty good trout lake, and walleye lake, too, Snowbank...
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TROUT ABOUT IN AREA STREAMS.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/29/2001; 700+ words
; ...there each year for the opening day of trout season, in spite of the high, cold water...notwithstanding, this is shaping up to be a good trout-fishing season. According to Norm McBride...of Environmental Conservation, the 2001 trout season should be ``great, barring any...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Iowa spring trout fishing outlook excellent; Stocking season set to begin on Thursday
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 3/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; DES MOINES - The excitement of spring trout fishing in beautiful northeast Iowa is...across the state. The much-anticipated trout stocking season is set to begin on Thursday...experienced the beauty of a spring day on an Iowa trout stream, it is a memory not soon forgotten...
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Trout–perch
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Trout – perch The trout-perch belongs to the family Percopsidae, which includes only one...cm). The sandroller is a bit smaller. As the name implies, the trout-perch has characteristics of both the trout and the perch. Like...
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trout
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
trout Any fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae). There are three types of the single species of European trout ( Salmo trutta ). The brown or river trout is small and dark, and does not migrate. The lake trout...
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Trout, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Trout, The ( Die Forelle ). Song for v. and pf. by Schubert comp. 1817 (D550) to words by Schubart . Exists in 4 versions, differing in only minor ways; last version (1821) has 5-measure pf. prelude. See also ‘Trout’ Quintet .
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‘Trout’ Quintet
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
‘Trout’ Quintet. Nickname of pf. quintet in A major by Schubert (D667), so called because 4th of 5 movts. is set of variations on his song Die Forelle (The Trout , 1817, D550). Comp. 1819.
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rainbow trout
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
rain·bow trout • n. a large, partly migratory trout ( Salmo gairdneri ) native to the Pacific seaboard of North America. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, both as a farmed food fish and as a sporting fish.
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