1. Focus on Habitat: Wild Brook Trout
By Hannah Ernest

2. Found in clean, cold waters streams, ponds, and lakes
Members of trout and salmon family
State Fish
Have "worm track” markings on their backs
White lines along their fins
Other names : Eastern Brook Trout , Speckled Trout, Square-tail, and Brookie.

3. Temperatures less than 68
lots of oxygen
Found mostly: in fast moving streams, cold mountain lakes and ponds.
Good habitat is key to catching colorful fish
Find them around : tree roots, fallen trees, undercut banks, and edges of large rocks.

4. Live for 2 yrs - max. 5
Grow no more than 12 in.
Find them in fall when they spawn
Colors of the male become much brighter
Females make nest on the gravel bottom of the stream
Unpolluted water and clean stream are important top the survival of trout eggs

5. Eats aquatic insects (babies)
Crayfish, worms, and smaller fish
EATEN BY:
Kingfishers, mergansers, raccoons, or fishermen