NFC Talks Salters (Northwoods Sporting Journal)

A sea-run brook trout from Downeast Maine. (Bob Mallard)

“Long before anglers discovered Maine, the biggest brook trout caught in America came from Massachusetts and New York, or Cape Cod and Long Island to be specific. These fish were salters.”

As part of his new monthly column, Native Fish Talk, in the Northwoods Sporting Journal, NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard writes about sea-run brook trout.

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“The best way to describe sea-run brook trout is diadromous, or migrating between freshwater and saltwater. They are not anadromous like Atlantic salmon which are a saltwater species that spawns and is reared in freshwater.”