gray trout

American  

noun

1. a common weakfish, Cynoscion regalis, inhabiting Atlantic and Gulf coastal waters of the United States.

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Example Sentences

I caught a gray trout next—a smaller one than the first—and in another minute I had landed another three-pound speckled beauty.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian

A Boy's Song Where the pools are bright and deep, Where the gray trout lies asleep, Up the river and o'er the lea, That's the way for Billy and me.

From The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Then to the stream side, gladly we'll hie, Where the gray trout glide silently by, Or in some still place Over the hill face Hurrying onward, drop the light fly.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Jim went off and presently returned with a string of big gray trout.

From Partners of the Out-Trail by Bindloss, Harold

He caught a couple of two-and-a-half-pound brook trout and a four-pound gray trout, and I was as well rewarded.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian