Where the “little trout” aren’t little
You’ll find brook trout in countless alder-lined beaver bogs and tumbling canopy-forest brooks along the spine of the Appalachians, throughout the New Engl

You’ll find brook trout in countless alder-lined beaver bogs and tumbling canopy-forest brooks along the spine of the Appalachians, throughout the New England backwoods and over to Michigan’s sandy upper peninsula. All of them are delicate and tiny.

But there’s a special place in southern Labrador where specimens of Salvelinus fontinalis, “the little trout of the springs,” grow to proportions so extraordinary that you’ll do a double take. Their vibrant black-and-ivory-striped fins and charcoal-edged orange bellies are distinctive.

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