If you get the chance to fish for native brook trout in their home waters, don't pass it up. There’s a lot to like about brook trout – even if they're technically a char, not a trout. They sport ...

Pennsylvania's state fish is a freshwater favorite — the brook trout. The brook goes by several names locally, including brown trout, brookie and speckled trout.It is also the only native trout not ...

But brook trout, after expanding to new streams, face stiffer competition as warming threats worsen.

Vacation took me to Lake Superior’s North Shore recently, where many of the small streams that dump into the lake contain brook trout. These streams, in their upper reaches where the waters are cool ...

SHOKAN, N.Y. — Studies conducted of trout populations in New York streams found genetically distinct varieties of the fish in the Catskills region, according to an announcement. The studies were ...

The debate among anglers about whether stocking hatchery-raised brook trout in Pennsylvania streams is harmful to wild brookies already there is likely to continue after a new Penn State study. On one ...

ALL-STAR CAST: Matt Barnes, a guide for Asheville Fly Fishing Co., fishes in the Watauga River. Photo by Emma Johnson “For the native trout,” Chamberlain wrote, “grand as he is, does not take kindly ...

Pennsylvania’s state fish is the brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, one of only two members of the trout family that are native to this state. The other is the lake trout, which has a much smaller ...

Anglers can find brook trout in alpine lakes, like this one in the Pioneer Mountains near Sun Valley. They also are typically found in mountain streams and beaver ponds. Pete Zimowsky Special to the ...