Brook trout

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[size 4][font "Garamond"][#008000]Did you know that The brook trout, (sometimes called the eastern brook trout) is a species of fish in the salmon family of order Salmoniformes. In many parts of its range, it is known as the speckled trout. Apotamodromous population in Lake Superior are known as coaster trout or, simply, as coasters. Though commonly called a trout, the brook trout is actually a char, along with lake trout, bull trout, Dolly Vardenand the Arctic char.[/#008000][/font][/size]
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[Scruffy_Fly]

I did know.

When I was a boy growing up in Northern New Hampshire I used to fish for speckle trout. For years I wondered what a brook trout looked like and what were the differences between them. When I moved to Arizona I think is when I my father informed me that they were the same.

With respect to cold water fish here is a web page I created, not to long ago.
If you are on a dial up connection you don't even want to open this page.

[url "http://www.westdenvertu.org/coldwaterfishcolorado.htm"]http://www.westdenvertu.org/coldwaterfishcolorado.htm[/url]
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[Dryrod]

[center][font "Garamond"][#008000][size 4]Trout Unlimited is an excellent source of information.[/size][/#008000][/font]
[center][font "Garamond"][#008000][size 4]Thanks for sharing that site with us.[/size][/#008000][/font]
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[Brook]

In the mountain south they're also known as 'Natives." Until the wide-spread stocking programs of the 19th & 20th centuries they were the only trout found in our hills.

Now they've been all but fished out. In the Smokies, for instance, they are only found high up in the headwater creeks, and there's been a long-standing moritorium on keeping them.

Here in Kentucky there are six streams in the Daniel Boone NF with naturally reproducing brookies. Those streams are maintained on a don't-ask, don't-tell policy, so you don't see them listed anywhere.

In New Brunswick, in the spring, there's a run of fish locally called "Salters," which are sea-run brookies. So there's another name for them.
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[Scruffy_Fly]

[#0000ff]Out west here there were not any brook trout before the whiteman. Now there are probably more brook trout than all other cold water fish ....... combined.[/#0000ff]
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[Brook]

Yeah, but think of the slams you can put together.

I remember once on the Bitterroot watching my fishing partner take four species of trout with four casts, without moving a foot---Brown, rainbow, brook, and cutthroat.

Was I jealous? Not a bit! You believe that, doncha?[angelic]

Brook
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