Interestingly, brook trout aren’t really trout, but char and are closely related to Arctic Char, Dolly Varden and Lake Trout.

Starting Jan. 1, anglers in Connecticut can keep brook trout only 9 inches or longer, while the number of locations where absolutely no brook trout harvest will be allowed is increasing from 20 to 22.

The presence of brook trout says a lot about the condition of a lake, river, or stream. Brook trout are sensitive fish that can only spawn, grow, and survive in clean, cold water. If a body of water ...

There are three kinds of trout in this country — native, wild, and stocked. Native trout are the ones that have been here for ...

Brook trout have been cooked over the coals at campsites beside alpine lakes in the Eagle Cap Wilderness for many decades. But the tasty trout, despite the thousands of meals they’ve supplied to ...

Pennsylvania stocks about 3.2 million trout annually, but only 4% are brook trout, the state fish. The number of stocked brook trout has been significantly reduced since 2016 to protect wild ...

A brook trout that was sampled as part of a USGS study of fish populations during the region’s recovery from acid rain. Fish populations in Adirondack headwater streams grew significantly in diversity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brook trout may be Pennsylvania’s state fish, but there are several reasons why they only make up about 4% of the stocked fish ...