Crossword-Solution: SMOLT 5 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

And it is a very singular and interesting fact that those only go which have got their sea-coats on them, or have reached the "smolt" character.

The fish ways are generally in good condition (although some improvements will be made), and fish have easy access to headwaters, That large numbers go up and spawn is evidenced by the large numbers of smolt seen at the head of tidal water in the spring, many being taken by boys with the rod.

The blue marks on their sides are very distinct, and the fish is a perfect Smolt, except that it is considerably larger.

Again, when the Smolts were turned out of the breeding ponds at Dohulla, Galway, the experiment was looked upon as a failure because no Grilse returned the same season, not one having showed itself, but many came the summer after, proving pretty conclusively that in some rivers, at all events, the Smolt requires a year's residence in the sea before it returns as Grilse.

The second stage is when it puts on the silvery coat previous to going to sea for the first time: it is then called a "smolt," and is from six to eight inches long, still living in the river where it was hatched.