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 ...

Pennsylvania stocks about 3.2 million trout annually, but only 4% are brook trout, the state fish. The number of stocked brook trout has been significantly reduced since 2016 to protect wild ...

When the General Assembly of Pennsylvania officially made the brook trout the state fish, March 9, 1970, there wasn’t really another candidate worthy of consideration. While it’s common these days for ...

The invasive brook trout is out-competing with the native and threatened bull trout in the waterways of the Malheur National Forest. Now, new efforts are underway to eradicate the invasive fish from ...

Want to catch a brook trout? Go deep with sinking fly lines (high-density lines) and tie on either a streamer or a nymph.

The Southern Appalachian brook trout are ancient. But the fish only like clean streams. Now scientists want to know how the trout is doing a year after floods from Hurricane Helene. Biologists in ...