bull trout

Origin of bull trout

First recorded in 1645–55

Salmon and bull-trout, sea-trout, and finnocks divide their time between fresh water and salt water.

Gairloch In North-West Ross-Shire |John H. Dixon, F.S.A. Scot
The bull-trout, for some obscure reason, is not at all responsive to his efforts, except in its kelt stage.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 |Various
Now a bull-trout has teeth, and held in a vise-like grip in the teeth of this one was a smaller trout.

Tenting To-night |Mary Roberts Rinehart
But it is the bull-trout which falls victim, as a rule, to the troll.

Tenting To-night |Mary Roberts Rinehart

They have been down all the morning at the pool where the alder is, trying to catch that bull-trout.'

Echoes of the War |J. M. Barrie

bull trout

any large trout, esp the salmon trout