Every time I fish a brook trout stream, I’m reminded why I have such a soft spot for them. I’m a sucker for dry fly eats, and a brook trout hits a dry fly like no other. The best thing about them?

There are three kinds of trout in this country — native, wild, and stocked. Native trout are the ones that have been here for thousands of years, such as brook trout in the mountains of the Northeast ...

Valley Creek, a protected trout stream, flows into the St. Croix River just north of Afton’s Old Village. The stream is home to brook, rainbow and brown trout, and is one of the few Minnesota trout ...