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gray trout

American  

noun

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


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Now, Lake Pepin contains no large gray trout; in fact, with the exception of Salmo fontinalis, its fishes are all of the Western type.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

This surprised me, for I had no idea of catching anything but lake or gray trout in that water.

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 Julian Ralph

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 Julian Ralph

The gray trout were shy that evening and they had let the canoe drift farther than they thought.

From The Lure of the North by Harold Bindloss

She had, with his guidance, driven a locomotive across a shaking, half-braced bridge, fired a heavy blasting shot, and caught big gray trout from his canoe.

From Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss

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