1830 W. Howitt (1837) 122 Cloudy weather, a little windy, especially from the South, is in high favour with the trouter.
1854 50 397 However well a trouter may get on by keeping to the banks of his river, the salmon fisher can rarely be successful by fishing from dry land.
1887 June 107/1 Your dry-fly man is inclined to look upon the great mass of trouters..with something akin to complacent and patronizing compassion.