Kamloops (trout)

[< Kamloops(< Salishan "meeting place of waters"), B.C.]

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a large game fish, Salmo gairdneri kamloops, native to the upper Columbia and Fraser Rivers; a landlocked steelhead.

Quotations

1905

In the Illecilewaet and other streams may be found the trout of the Upper Columbia--the Kamloops trout.

1938

A few, which are rather like rainbows, are the Kamloops.

1964

The big Kamloops stood on his tail and skittered all over the bay for 55 minutes before Jack was able to get him into the canoe.