Leave the fly rod and grab the muck boots. For an interesting take on brook trout angling, make for the hardwoods instead of the main stream. These quick tips on catching small creek, under the radar ...

Brook trout are Connecticut’s only native trout and a prized catch, but the number of them in the state’s streams and rivers ...

Brook trout, or brookies as they are commonly referred to, are synonymous with the Northeast and small mountain streams. While technically a char, the species is almost always grouped together with ...

Walking through a large tract of woods in Pennsylvania, you may be surprised to see that someone cut trees and dropped them into a stream. Those fallen trees are part of an organized effort by many ...

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?

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 ...

Tom Rosenbauer reached down to his laptop, and a picture of a tiny cascade of water splashing down stones appeared on the projector screen. “Would you stop and fish a stream that small?” he asked the ...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is considering increasing the minimum legal size for trout by 2 inches.

Fabius Brook begins life as a spring bubbling out of the ground in a cedar swamp located halfway between the villages of Tully and Fabius. It’s one of the few streams in Onondaga County that flows ...

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 ...