The brook trout is native to the eastern United States and Canada from Labrador to Georgia and westward to Wisconsin.  The species was widely introduced in the western United States from the late 1800s until around 1940.  The brook trout prefers clean, cold streams and has become well established in the mountain regions throughout most of Wyoming.  The brook trout is a prolific fall spawner.  In small streams, it often overpopulates, which may eliminate other trout species and cause the brook trout to remain "stunted" or unable to grow past a small size.  The brook trout is distinguished from the true trout (genus Salmo) by the spots on a dark background and from lake trout by relatively square caudal fin and the presence of blue or pink spots.

We can offer fantastic brook trout fishing in the Paintrock streams where the catch is fish than most people have caught in a day.  These creek brookies are relatively small but ounce for ounce nothing fights like they do.  One of the lakes we enjoy float tubing in has brookies up to 20 inches and there is few times that a fish of 15 to 16 inches is not caught.  These fish are a bit more challenging though.