Did you know that trout talk?
Speckled trout are not a member of the trout family (salmonidae), but of the drum family (sciaenidae), and they make drumming noises just like red drum and black drum.
The drumming sounds come from sexually mature males contracting the muscles near their swim bladders, causing them to vibrate like a drum and thus attracting females to spawn. Especially during the prime mating period, from April to September and primarily from dusk until midnight, is when the sounds are most intense. Guide Doug Gertis recalls seeing biologists using hydrophones — underwater microphones — locating major spawning areas near and stretching south from the Broad River bridge in Beaufort. Trout spawn in deeper water within many of the river systems of the Lowcountry.
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