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Male fishes always carry more red than females and are most gorgeously colored during the breeding season. The environment has much to do with coloration. I have taken fish above a dam in dead water with muck bottom that were velvety black on the back and much darker throughout; below the same dam, where the bottom is sand and gravel, I have taken fish so much lighter and brilliant that a novice would be tempted to believe them of a different species; from a deep lake I have taken brook trout that were almost azure, dusted with bronze flecks, and sea run trout are silvery white. Habitat The beauties of the brook trout and its habitat have much to do with the enthusiasm of anglers who go a-trouting. As Camp points out we always associate the brook trout with white tailed deer, the partridge and the gray squirrel. Cone bearing trees, cold purling water, some distance removed from civilization, are the true settings of trout and trouting, for the brook trout is essentially a fish of the silent places. |
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