show us your brook trout pics!

[geoff40]

Savelinus Fontinalis, the brook trout. In reality a char and not a trout at all. Is there any finer eating, cold water stream-caught fish?

In the past few years my kids get the honor of bringing home the first trout of the year. Here they are with their take from this past weekend. It was a fine morning along the stream! We threw a few more back, and after about an hour or so they'd had their fill, and moved on to tree climbing...

 

[Texas Star]

I like the brookie.

My impression is that the wild ones have pink flesh, the hatchery ones more whitish, at least until they fully acclimitize to a wild diet and lifestyle. Is that so?

It is closely related to the Arctic char, but chars are so troutlike that no one but biologists cares.

I saw a few in Colorado, where they are not native. Caught far more browns and rainbows.

I infinitely prefer to see and catch trout in scenic mountain surroundings than fish for bass.

 

[ogilvyspecial]

I like the brookie.

My impression is that the wild ones have pink flesh, the hatchery ones more whitish, at least until they fully acclimitize to a wild diet and lifestyle. Is that so?

That's been my experience. Depending on what their diet consists of, as well as how many micro organisms are in the water, which they also absorb, some meat can be bright red.

 

[Waldo]

My wife and I were just talking about this I am a city boy and these things always puzzle me. Is a brook trout considered "seafood" ?

 

[arjay]

Freshwater fish.Used to catch loads of them on a fly rod in the canyons when I was young.Great fun!

 

[geoff40]

Growing up, my Grandparents had a small man-made pond, using a concrete wall to dam a spring fed brook. The brook had true, NH native trout in it, and so did the pond. Nobody fished it except those of us in the family.
Those brook trout had black bellies, the darkest brook trout I've ever seen. But absolutely beautiful fish, with bright blue, red, and gold spots on them. The flesh was bright orange. I used to eat just 1 or 2 a year, as a special treat. The rest were thrown back. I would give about anything to catch brook trout like those again.
In the fall, the males would develop celts, the hunch back, the hooked mouth, even when they were less than a foot long. If I knew then what I know now, I would have sent a couple of them off to be mounted. And I'd have some good photographs of those trout. But I have neither.
The people who later purchased the property drained the pond a couple of times, and that strain of fish is now gone.