In summer, odds are you will have to travel down stream until the water is cool. Any river section with a rapids or strong current will hold the trout.

In the spring, the Brook Trout are easy to find. Because of this, they actively migrate up and down the rivers all year looking for the right conditions. The world record came from Lake Nipigon, just north of Thunder Bay, and many believe that Northwestern Ontario’s Albany River watershed offers the best brook trout angling in North America.īrook Trout need lots of oxygen and a water temperature of 53 degrees or colder.

The spots along the back (dorsal) are elongated and appear worm-like while the spots below the lateral line are round and red, and each is surrounded by a bluish halo.īrook trout are native to Eastern North America, from Labrador and Newfoundland south to the southern Appalachian mountains of Georgia and South Carolina, west to Iowa and Minnesota and north to eastern Manitoba. Key distinguishing markings are cream-colored spots on a dark background. The Brook trout is named for the habitat in which it is found: Salvelinus (sal-veh-lynn´-uss) taken from a word meaning “little salmon” fontinalis (fon-ten-al´-iss) means “living in springs” in Latin.

Thanks to and Trout Unlimited information, here’s the scoop:īrook trout are part of the trout and salmon family and the Char genus that include Bull Trout, Lake Trout and Artic Char. So I have prepared this document as an introductory to the first time Brook Trout angler, and as a refresher course for those who have chased these “Specks” before. Many of our guests, especially those who have angled only for Walleye and Pike, may still think of the Brook Trout as elusive. Well today I still have such a resource but it is so much bigger than a “backyard” I am speaking of the Albany River Watershed, with its fast cold waters and abundant supply of Brookies. Later in life when I heard others talking about these handsome and feisty fish, and how often they struggled to find and catch them, I thought how fortunate I was to have had a great resource at my fingertips. We would catch and release or catch and eat all we wanted.

My first memory of Brook Trout takes me back to being a boy and having a spring fed river and pond right behind my home.

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