Following bass fishing, trout fishing is the second most popular form of freshwater fishing in the United States. Like there bass brethren, trout, regardless of stripe, offer anglers an aggressive, fierce fishing experience. But much like the term bass, trout is idiomatic, and generally refers to a trout species that may be geographically unique.
There is a diverse number of trout species spread across three different families of fish. Trout is closely related to both saltwater and freshwater salmon. Brown trout, not indigenous to the United States and common in the small, warm streams of northeastern, northwestern and central United States is related to the Atlantic salmon. Other close relatives of the sockeye salmon are the