Brook Trout Details
- Water Type: freshwater
- Latin Name: Salvelinus fontinalis
- Common Names: Aurora Trout, Brookie, Coaster, Common Brook Trout, Eastern Brook Trout, Mountain Trout, Mud Trout, Sea Trout, Speck Trout
- Water Temp: the coldest streams and lakes
- World Record: 14 lbs, 8 oz., from the Nipigon River in Ontario, in July 1916 by Dr. W.J. Cook.
- Last Modified By: baystateangler on 04/29/15 06:29 AM
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Baits and Tackle for Brook Trout
Flies Check Prices
- Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble
- Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
- Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
Dry Fly Check Prices
Nymph Check Prices
- Copper John
Other Check Prices
- power bait baby
Lake Pattern Check Prices
Crankbait Check Prices
- Silver Lipless crank
In-Line Spinner Check Prices
- rooster tail
- mepps agalia
Plastic Swimbait Check Prices
- little orange w/ black spots helin flatfish
Roundhead Jig Check Prices
- Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
Panfish Jig Check Prices
- Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
One Brook Trout and one Rainbow. - Trout Magnet Jigs
- Trout magnet 1/64 ounce jig with a white split-tail grub.
Nightcrawler Check Prices
- Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
Minnow Check Prices
- Live Shinner hooked on the back near the dorsal fin.
- LIve Shinner hooked right beside the dorsal fin.
- Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
Brook Trout Description
Native to the East coast of the United States. This species is really a member of the Char family and is not a true "trout."
They are olive-green to dark brown on the back, lighter on the sides, and silvery white on underside.
Pale spotting; blue halos surround small red spots on the sides, worm-like markings (vermiculation) on the back, and dorsal fin are lacking in other salmonids. The edges of the lower fins have white margins.
All colors intensify at spawning time.
-Massachusetts State Record is 10 lbs 0 oz caught by Peter Harand in 2008 at Ashfield Lake Ashfield, MA