This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter. On a startlingly beautiful day high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Thomas Champeau waded into Yellowstone Prong ...

Outfitter Jeff Curtis likes everything about Southern Appalachian brook trout. Western North Carolina’s only native trout are strikingly beautiful and live in remote, high-elevation streams. “They ...

Brook trout are the only trout native to the eastern United States. Their numbers have diminished over the past decades to levels that threaten their extirpation in many areas. Trout Unlimited has ...

With its white-edged fins, ruby belly and golden speckles, the Southern Appalachian Brook Trout is one of the Southeast’s most strikingly beautiful game fish. However, the impact of deforestation and ...

Great Smoky Mountains — Years of hard work by biologists and volunteers in the Great Smoky Mountains could lure even more anglers to the national park in 2018. The park reintroduced and restored ...

On a cool day in June, Thomas Champeau was ankle deep in the Yellowstone Prong Creek near Brevard, North Carolina. Champeau was fishing for the elusive Southern Appalachian brook trout, which love the ...

If you get the chance to fish for native brook trout in their home waters, don't pass it up. There’s a lot to like about brook trout – even if they're technically a char, not a trout. They sport ...

TREMONT, Tenn. – The Great Smoky Mountains is the most-visited national park in the United States. More than 12 million people came here in 2020, which is about 1.4 million more visitors than the next ...

Petersburg W.Va. — Our state fish, the brook trout, is simply beautiful. It's also a fascinating species, being the only member of the salmon family native to West Virginia. This means they require ...

One of Virginia's most popular national parks is a haven for native fish, but warming waters could prove devastating for this keystone species. This story is the first in a series on ways that climate ...

Cedric C. Keith’s “The Dying Fish: A Sojourn to the Source,” is a retelling of Keith’s 4,000-mile walk through the eastern wilderness prompted by his desire to save the Eastern Brook Trout. Born from ...

Last June, 280 fingerling brook trout were released into Little Stony Creek on Cherokee National Forest northeast of Elizabethton, Tennessee. Propagated by the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation ...