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 ...

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 ...

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.