Casting into the unknown
There is nothing more mysterious than a sea trout. Even the finest scientific minds are slightly baffled by these fish, which move enigmatically back and forth to the sea like ghosts. Some years will bring big runs of sea trout up my local rivers here in Galloway and yet there will be times when they seem to have vanished off the face of the earth.
The mystery is compounded by the fact that the fish have become scarce in many places and they are not always easy to find. Catch records of salmon and sea trout on my local haunts show a steady decline in numbers for the past 20 years. Sea trout enjoy an unexpected blip now and then, but the direction of travel is almost exclusively downhill.
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