Pre-spawn brook trout are a gift – but, when they're spawning, leave 'em be. / Photo by Jasper Taback Whether or not you should fish a stream when trout are spawning is one of the great debates ...

A brook trout usually reaches 7 to 12 inches in length but can grow to over 2 feet and weigh up to 15 pounds in larger lakes. Locally, Henry’s Lake produces some large brookies.

On top of that, wild populations of native brook trout and naturalized brown and rainbow trout persist across the region. Even in lakes that are stocked, the trout often travel into feeder streams to ...

The average brook trout in Minnesota grows to about 8 inches. It’s not uncommon for Superior’s to grow to more than three times that size.

The presence of brook trout says a lot about the condition of a lake, river, or stream. Brook trout are sensitive fish that can only spawn, grow, and survive in clean, cold water.

Brook trout take on some beautiful spawning colors this time of year, and fishing season for stream trout on Minnesota's designated stream-trout lakes remains open through Oct. 31.

There, the AFS announced Idaho’s “YY Male Brook Trout Research Program” won the 2016 Sport Fish Restoration Outstanding Project award for research and surveys.

Wyoming Game and Fish have released 3,600 Trojan male brook trout into Game Creek, a Snake River drainage, in a long-term effort to eliminate the species in favor of native ...

DEC regional fisheries biologist Brad Hammers, left, is all smiles as he displays a 10-pound male rainbow trout netted Tuesday, March 7, 2023 during a sampling of the annual spring trout spawning ...

There had only been two known small populations of brook trout that lived all their days and spawned in the lake itself. Both live along the rocky and unique shoreline of Isle Royale, the remote ...