Brown Trout Facts For Kids
Meet Cora
Hi friends! I’m Cora. I love fishing so much that I am always studying how to be the best fisher kid. I want to help you be the best fisher kid too. In this post I write about the big mean Brown Trout!
The Colors of Brown Trout
Brown trout are mean, they’re tough, and they’re so much fun for kids to fish. They can also get really really big!
Brown trout, like their name, have brown and yellow bodies. You can also tell a brown trout by their many dark brownish black spots. They have orange or pinkish dots all over. These dots have either a blue or white halo around them. Lastly, many have a big dark spot next to their eye.
Brown Trout colors and patterns explained.
Let’s Find Brown Trout!
Do you want to catch a big mean brown trout with me? Great! Good news, this fish is so popular with anglers that it is pretty much everywhere. I mean it! The brown trout is on every major continent besides Antarctica, and in almost every single US state.
Brown trout are in streams, rivers, lakes, and the ocean! Of course, this is all dependent on when they are spawning (releasing eggs), so we will need to know what time of year we are fishing.
“Can you imagine a brown trout weighing more than you? The biggest brown trout on record was 44lbs and 5oz. That is about the weight of a 6 year old kid!”
How Brown Trout Behave in Water
Brown trout spawn in late fall, and only every 3-4 years. When they spawn they swim into the smallest parts of the river and find a gravel bottom. But remember, we don’t want to fish them when they’re spawning! That is not very nice.
If not spawning, bigger brown trout like to hide beneath the edges of the river or stream. Some will sit at the bottom of the river during the day and come up when the sun sets. We will want small bug flies for fishing smaller Brown Trout, and then fish-looking “streamers” if we want to catch a big fish!
If it is spring time, when other trout spawn, we can also try tying on an egg, since Brown Trout like to eat other fish’s eggs. During this time, brown trout are very aggressive. That’s why our sticker looks angry!
History of Brown Trout
Brown Trout are not native to the USA. They came here in 1883 from Germany and then Scotland. A year later in 1884, they were put into the Baldwin River which is in Michigan. The way Brown Trout behave make them very popular with anglers. Also, their aggressive nature allows them to takeover a river easily. Both of these factors are a big part of why Brown Trout are now all over the world. (History courtesy of Orvis).
