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| | Brook Trout |
 | | Before the turn of the century, brook trout were introduced to the mountainous regions of the American West and can still be found there as well as throughout the Norhteast, the northeastern Midwest, parts of the Appalachain range, and most of eastern Canada. |
 | | That may be partly a matter of the brook trout angler’s coming to terms with the bleak odds of catching a big fish, but it must also have something to do with striking beauty of brook trout themselves--even small ones--and that of the tumbling mountain streams and remote ponds and lakes where they live. |
 | | Brook trout are easily identified by the yellowish, worm-like markings (or vermiculations) running along the fish’s back, contrasted against a dark greenish background. |
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