| Trout Species |
| North Carolina has three trout species in hundreds of miles of streams.
The brook, brown, and rainbow trout species. In this section of
Fly Fish North Carolina, you will learn more about the trout species that inhibit
North Carolina. |
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| Brook Trout |
| The brook trout, or speckled trout as it is called locally, is the
only trout native to North Carolina. Considered an ice age relict, this
member of the char family is found only in cold water mountain streams
of the mountains. |
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| Brown Trout |
| Brown trout, native to northern Europe, were imported into this
country from Germany and Scotland in the late 1800s. They were first
stocked in North Carolina shortly after 1905, but were never as
widely distributed as the rainbow. |
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| Rainbow Trout |
| Rainbow trout, native to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada
range in the western United States, were introduced into North
Carolina as early as the 1880s. Since then they have been stocked
in most trout waters in the state, and have become the backbone of
our trout fishing industry |
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