River Salmonids of the North Country

One of the amazing things about our Northern New England’s river fisheries is that we have a wide variety of wild salmonid species we can target.  Wild and native Brook trout and landlocked salmon, (as well as non native wild salmon in some fisheries) and non native wild rainbow and brown trout are abundant depending on the particular river.  All characteristics of each species unique habits are generalizations, and I’ll only be focusing on wild stream born fish.Geographic location varies by species as well as the overall abundance.  Some rivers are home to all four.

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