As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground - but anglers and scientists are ...

Brook trout found in Shannon Run on Laurel Hill. For our series, Reporting From the Mon, we’re talking to people with different perspectives on the Monongahela River. For this interview, we head east ...

Native Americans were catching and eating brook trout from our streams hundreds of years before the first Pilgrims arrived in 1620. The Indians introduced the brook trout to Pilgrims as food and also ...

One day this summer, shortly after noon, the angle of the sun must have been just right: It allowed Ben Harris to see shadows inside dozens of protective tree tubes that he and Amish farm boys had ...

There’s a lot to like about brook trout – even if they're technically a char, not a trout. They sport otherworldly colors, dwell in only the cleanest bodies of water, and attack dry flies with a ...

Steve Schwartz demonstrates fly fishing technique in front of his home in Equinunk, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions ...

When the General Assembly of Pennsylvania officially made the brook trout the state fish, March 9, 1970, there wasn’t really another candidate worthy of consideration. While it’s common these days for ...

The outdoor lifestyle is ruled by the seasons, and the seasons by traditions. But there’s no tradition that enraptures me more than spring on a native brook trout stream. Trout do, on occasion, live ...

New York’s state fish is the colorful brook trout. These fish has been around since the glaciers receded thousands of years ago, a native fish that is not a trout at all. It’s actually a char, like ...

A prized fish among Garden State anglers, the Eastern brook trout has seen significant population declines in recent years, threatened by several factors — from increasing water temperatures to ...