Brook Trout Fishing Tip Videos

  • Trophy Brook Trout in Newfoundland and Labrador

    Angling guide Gord Robinson chats about fishing for trophy brook trout in Newfoundland and Labrador - the last frontier.

  • Making Your Own Feathered Trebles

    Feathered trebles add flash to any bait that uses treble hooks, here's how to make your own at home.

  • How To: Catch Sea Run Brook Trout

    Redbrook stream in Massachusetts is a unique area where you can fish for Sea Run Brook Trout.

  • Local Flavor: New Hampshire Hatchery

    The New Hampshire State Fish Hatchery in New Hampton, NH is the oldest hatchery in the state, over 100 years old. This facility specializes in raising wild and domesticated strains of Eastern brook trout and brown trout.

  • Love Your Lake: Pearl Lake

    Pearl Lake is nestled in the mountains north of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Surrounded by lush forest in the Pearl Lake State Park, the lake offers anglers peace and quiet while they seek to land brook trout, cutthroat trout, graylings and longnose suckers.

  • Love Your Lake: Irvine Lake

    Where can an angler find some great fishing for rainbow, brook, and brown trout, blue and channel catfish, bass, wipers, crappies, bluegill, and sturgeons, in the same body of water? They're all in Irvine Lake, just a few miles east of Anaheim, Calif

  • How To: Live Bait Rigging

    Live bait rigging provides an opportunity to present a natural food source to fish, which ultimately produces more hook ups. Learn how properly rig live bait to present it to fish efficiently.

  • Fish Facts: Speckled Trout

    Joe Street from River's Edge Outfitters demonstrates how to fish for speckled trout.

Fresh Water
Salt Water

Brook Trout Species Identification

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Brook Trout
Eric Engbretson/USFWS

Appearance

The back ranges from green to dark brown or nearly black in color. The sides are of a lighter color with pale spots and small red spots surrounded by bluish circles. The belly color often depends on the sex of the fish, as females can be white to yellow while males tend to have a deep orange or reddish tinge. Colors change dramatically as spawning time approaches. Ocean-going brook trout become silvery and actually lose some of their distinctive colors, although the red spots remain. Brook trout revert back to their original colors when coming back into freshwater.

Maximum Size

Brook trout do not grow as large as other forms of trout, rarely exceeding 7 pounds (3 kg). The largest ever caught remains the oldest angling record in the world: a 14 pound 8 oz (6.57 kg) specimen caught back in 1916. 30-35 inches (76-89 cm) is the max length a brook trout could grow to.

Geographic Range

Brook trout are native to eastern North America, ranging as far north as Hudson Bay, south through higher elevations along the Appalachian Mountains to Georgia, and in the Mississippi River.It is Atlantic Canada's most common trout.

brook trout

Habitat

Brook trouts are mainly a freshwater species that live in small streams, ponds, creeks, and lakes. There are also sea-running trout, spending upwards of three months in the ocean, but never straying too far from shore.

Life Span

5-8 years.

Food

Plankton, insects, snails, clams, and fish.Sea run brook trout eat fish almost exclusively while in salt water.

Spawning

Brook trout spawn in the fall from September to November, usually in streams on gravel. Hatchlings emerge from the gravel the following spring, barely longer than an inch (3 cm).

Predators

Larger fish (northern pike), birds (ospreys, kingfisher, herons, and loons) and mammals (otters, raccoons, and mink).

Information credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Brook Trout Fishing Tips

Spring Prep Guide

Preparing for spring is certainly an endeavor in patience and persistence.  There are so many things to remember in the late winter and early spring preparation it is hard to say where to start.  I usually begin with trying to whittle down all the tackle I bought last summer and fall down to a manageable level.  I used to carry 4 hard sided plastic tackle boxed and two soft sided

5 Best Fishing Spots In Ontario

Ontario itself contains 15 percent of the world's freshwater. Amidst all of that is some of the best fishing in the world. But for the very best, here's the top five lakes in the province for fishing.

Painful to Watch

Rick Schroeder, a well known writer did a piece on the proper care of fish after they are caught.  It was a great read that pointed out that almost everyone was doing something small wrong.  Many fish swim as a result of his article. One problem I have is the practice of fish being baited with power baits and then the rods are leaned against a tree and watched.  Fisherperson

Brook Trout Photo Galleries

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    First fishing day 2013

  • 2013 Striped Bass Fishing Trip

    Pictures from our May 9, 2013 Fishing trip to the Chesapeake Bay

  • Perch Fishing With ReelBait, XZone And Salmo

    Perch Fishing With ReelBait, XZone And Salmo

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    fishing 2013 started at perch festival time

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  • Bass Fishing: Split-shotting 4" worms

    During the post spawn we were able to have many productive days in both deep and shallow waters using a split shot rig with 4" plastics

  • 2013 Fishing Season

    Pics From the 2013 Fishing season

  • Shore Fishing Lake Erie

    Some shots from around the north shore of lake Erie

  • 2013

    2013 fishing

  • ice fishing 2012-2013

    ice fishing me and my girlfriend

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    many fish

  • Spring Sturgeon Fishing in BC

    It's been a killer season with friends and family chasing the Fraser River White Sturgeon. Check out some of my picture highlights !

  • fly fishing In point breeze Ny

    Fishing with my son 2012

  • fly fishing In point breeze Ny

    Fishing with my son 2012

  • Pine Island Sound Florida

    Great day fishing! we caught Snook, Ladyfish, Trout, Jack and cat fish. most were caught close in to shore in the mangroves off Pine Island Sound. Captain Wendell shared his knowledge and experience with 2 fresh water anglers, Gary and I. Great taste now set with salt water fishing! Thanks for hooking us in!

  • Pine Island Fishing, Florida

    Gulf Coast fishing: Snook, Red fish, Trout, Cat fish, and Jack. One of our totals granted the title of a Slam as locals call it. We used Quatum Rods and reels, 30lbs pro line, Jigs with freshly caught bait, shrimp and pin fish.

  • my first trout

    trout fishing

  • Summer 2012

    Fishing on Long Island

  • Past catches

    So many kinds of fish are in my memory.

  • Feb. & March 2013

    Fishing in SW Florida

  • Recent fishing

    My angling results are here.

  • Zulu Queen, My Current boat

    This is my current boat. The name i chose for it was Dawgman. I had a nice decal made and everything but my wife really like the name of the other boat i sold that was named after her. But as i got ready to put the Dawgman decal on some wind blew it and it folded up ruining it. So then i took out the Zulu Queen decal and that's how it took the name of the former boat. well my wife is happy about i

  • Zulu Queen, My first Boat

    This was my first boat that i named Zulu queen. It was named after the African tribe my wife belongs to. My wife is a south African and a Zulu.

  • BulletBobber and DualFins

    The BulletBobber is the result of an accidental freak of nature, cross breeding of a fishing float with a planer board. The result was an entirely new species that provides directional control! It moves like a planer board but flips flips direction when given a little tug but size is more like other bobbers and cast like other bobbers. fishing invention. Seriously though, a fun to use fishing i

  • 13 pound 2 ounce laketrout icefishing released

    fishing on whitefish lake in northern ontario catching and releasing a big laker.

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