Every time I fish a brook trout stream, I’m reminded why I have such a soft spot for them. I’m a sucker for dry fly eats, and a brook trout hits a dry fly like no other. The best thing about them?

The place where Eric Tofte is fishing is improbably beautiful. He's a half-mile or so up a North Shore stream, well up the shore from Duluth. It's a tiny stream, just a couple of feet wide in places, ...

One day, my friend Pete Fleischman was driving in the sand country of central Wisconsin when a couple of Huck Finn look-alikes popped out of the trees. They were carrying fishing rods and something ...

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Recent time in the high country led me along a small trickle of a stream. Brook trout preparing for spawning season burst through the shallow water, spooked by my surprise presence. I returned later ...

New 2026 rules raise trout size limits, expand protected wild brook trout areas, and add a new Trout Park in Southbury.

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — If you want to get technical, they are actually a kind of char, not closely related to other trout. But by whatever name, brook trout are Pennsylvania’s state fish. And ...

DEEP said the new regulation will protect wild brook trout because most are shorter than nine inches in length. Brook trout ...