Trout
Rainbow Trout
Rainbow Trout can be identified by their blue-green or yellow-green color, their pink streak, and black spots on their back and fins. They can reach a maximum length of four feet and weigh up to 53 pounds, but most are between 20 to 30 inches in length and can weigh up to 8 pounds. They prefer clear and cold waters and can be found in the rivers and lakes of North America west of the Rocky Mountains. Rainbow trout like submerged wood, boulders, undercut banks, and aquatic vegetation. Most of their diet consists of insects, smaller fish, cray fish, and plankton.
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Brown Trout
Brown Trout is identified by its brassy brown color, the creamy white underbelly, and medium sized spots. Brown trout in the western United States have larger fins, slimmer bodies, heavy black spotting, and lack of red spots. They range in length from 13 to 16 inches and can weigh two pounds or less. The brown trout of the Midwest and East have a lighter golden cast, some red spotting, and fewer dark spots. Their diet consists of fish, frogs, mice, birds, and insects. They will feed late in the afternoon or early evening but when the weather is cool they will feed during the day as well.
Brook Trout
Brook Trout are identified by its dark olive-green to dark-brown color on its back. The sides of the brook trout are lighter and become silvery white and have pale spots on the side and smaller less visible red spots with a bluish halo surrounding them. Typical length for a brook trout is between 10 to 26 inches and typical weight is 11 ounces to 7 pounds. Brown trout are confined to higher elevations southward in the Appalachian Mountains to the upper Mississippi River and as far west as Eastern Iowa. Their habitat is mainly small streams, creeks, lakes, and spring ponds, and some trout live in the ocean for a time and return to freshwater to spawn. Their diet consists of caddisflies, mayflies, worms, crustaceans, spiders, mollusks, frogs, and other fish.
Cutthroat Trout
Their color ranges from golden to gray to green on the back. They have a distinctive red, pink, or orange on the underside of their lower jaw. They are native to Western North America and their length ranges from 6 to 40 inches, most caught are only in the 12 inch range and weigh up to 6.5 pounds. Those that live in the ocean range in weight of 20 pounds and those that remain in freshwater can weigh up to two pounds.
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