My first Brook Trout
This is a Brook Trout that I caught (and released) at a local fishery. I’m just posting this as it’s the first time that I have caught a brookie, they aren’t so common in fisheries in Blighty.
According to Gilbert at the Gilcrux Springs Trout Farm it is not permitted to bring in brookies anymore so that only those farms which already have them can have them. If you catch my drift.
The brook is crossed with a brownie to produce a tiger trout, I’ve never seen one of those in the flesh though.
Apparently the brook trout is a slower growing fish than the rainbow so the fish you see here is likely some three years old (I’d estimate this one at a pound and a half).
