THURMONT, Md. -- It's autumn, when color adorns the woods and it's prime time to chase the most brilliant of all our fish: the wonderful, wild brook trout. Brookies are spawning in tiny mountain ...

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905), American Speckled Brook Trout, 1864, ... In among the reels and tied flies are some amazing paintings and drawings, including Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait’s American ...

It suggests the color riot of a Leonid Afremov painting. ... "Brook trout were my gateway to nature," says O'Hara, who grew up fishing for them in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Milt Franson, a Liverpool wildlife artist, holds up a 15 1/2-inch male brook trout he caught and released in "a little north Adirondack pond. He wrote: "I caught it on my 75 birthday.

Artist Joe Rizzo sculpted and furnished the piece with automotive paint. ... bringing beauty to the natural world in the form of a 14-foot brook trout is kind of unique,” Rizzo said.