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is a beautifully colored fish with yellow spots over an olive-green back with tint of redish pink towards the belly before it turns white. the fin is ack it has like a triangle that is disconnected near the back the fin is not spiky and is smooth. Common length for brook trout is 24.6 cm (10.4 in) with the maximum reported length Being 86 cm (33.9 in) is invasive
Brook trout occur in clear, cool, well oxygenated creeks, small to medium rivers and within lakes eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. There range extends as far west as eastern Minnesota.
Young brook trout feed on plankton and progress to insects until they are adults. Brook trout feed on a wide variety of organisms including worms, leeches, crustaceans, insects, mollusks, fishes, amphibians and also small mammals.
Predators of the brook trout include northern water snakes, heron, kingfishers, otters, and snapping turtles id say at any stage there in danger but probably when there just starting to get big because there small enough to be easily killed but big enough to be a good solid food source
land disturbing activities and include sedimentation, channelization, removal of riparian vegetation, and other alterations that degrade brook trout habitat.
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