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Trout, Salmon & Whitefish 🎣

29 freshwater species in this group - identification, habitat, seasons, tackle, baits and technique for each.

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Rainbow Trout

Rainbow Trout

The rainbow trout is the iconic American cold-water game fish - beautiful, widel…
Brown Trout

Brown Trout

The brown trout is the wary, intelligent, and most challenging of America's comm…
Brook Trout

Brook Trout

The brook trout is the jewel of America's coldest, cleanest headwater streams - …
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Lahontan Cutthroat Trout

The Lahontan cutthroat is the largest cutthroat trout in the world, a Great Basi…
Lake Trout

Lake Trout

The lake trout is the great deep-water predator of cold northern lakes - North A…
Chinook Salmon

Chinook Salmon

The Chinook salmon - also called the "king salmon" - is the largest of the Pacif…
Coho Salmon

Coho Salmon

The coho salmon - widely known as the "silver salmon" - is the acrobatic, hard-c…
Steelhead

Steelhead

Steelhead are the sea-run, or in the Great Lakes the lake-run, form of rainbow t…
Cutthroat Trout

Cutthroat Trout

Cutthroat trout are one of the West's most iconic native fish - a beautiful, wil…
Kokanee Salmon

Kokanee Salmon

The kokanee is the landlocked, freshwater-resident form of the sockeye salmon.
Arctic Grayling

Arctic Grayling

The Arctic grayling is one of the most beautiful fish that swims in North Americ…
Bull Trout

Bull Trout

The bull trout is one of the most iconic and most threatened native fish of the …
Sockeye Salmon

Sockeye Salmon

The sockeye salmon is the most prized of the Pacific salmon at the table and one…
Golden Trout

Golden Trout

The golden trout is California's state freshwater fish and one of the most beaut…
Tiger Trout

Tiger Trout

The tiger trout is one of the most striking fish you can catch in fresh water: a…
Lake Whitefish

Lake Whitefish

The lake whitefish is a cold-water native of the deep northern lakes, a silvery,…
Dolly Varden

Dolly Varden

The Dolly Varden is a beautiful, cold-water char of the Pacific Northwest, Alask…
Splake

Splake

The splake is a fascinating fish: a man-made hybrid between a male brook trout a…
Pink Salmon

Pink Salmon

The pink salmon is the smallest and most abundant of the Pacific salmon, and in …
Chum Salmon

Chum Salmon

The chum salmon is the bruiser of the Pacific salmon runs, a strong, deep-bodied…
Atlantic Salmon

Atlantic Salmon

The Atlantic salmon is often called "the leaper," and for good reason - it is on…
Cisco

Cisco

The cisco, also known as lake herring or tullibee, is a slender, silvery member …
Mountain Whitefish

Mountain Whitefish

The mountain whitefish is a native gem of the cold, clear rivers of the American…
Apache Trout

Apache Trout

The Apache trout is a golden-yellow native of Arizona's high White Mountains, on…
Gila Trout

Gila Trout

The Gila trout is a rare golden native of the mountain streams of New Mexico and…
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Arctic Char

The Arctic char is the northernmost freshwater fish in the world and one of the …
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Inconnu (Sheefish)

The inconnu, or sheefish, is a large predatory whitefish of the far north, nickn…
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Round Whitefish

The round whitefish is a slender, bronze-backed member of the whitefish family f…
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Rainbow Smelt

The rainbow smelt is a small, silvery, cucumber-scented fish that runs up coasta…

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