When it comes to beauty, few fish match the beauty of a brook trout.
They have pale yellow and red dots on their sides from head to tail with the red dots surrounded by delicate blue halos. Their bellies are cream colored, and the tips of their dark lower (pectoral, ventral and anal) fins are tipped with white. The white-tipped fins are a sure way of identifying a brook trout; it’s a unique feature.
Old-time trout fishers called brook trout “specks” because of the fish’s unusual markings. Many mountain fishers still call them speckled trout. Some even refer to speckled trout as a whole different species, and, indeed, when compared to a hatchery-raised brook to a stream-raised brook, there’s no comparison. One exception is hatchery brooks also have white-tipped fins.
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