Product Description
Our Plastic Brook Trout This hard plastic and colorful trout toy is well-made and realistic in its dark green and pink color, detailed spots and fins. Wonderfully proportioned, 3 1/8 inches long, it will fit nicely into a pond, river, or lake diorama. Our brook trout may be useful for a school project or as a party favor or novelty item. Check out our other trout and fish toys and gifts. We have a quality selection of plastic fish available: trout, bluegill, bass, muskies, crappies, perch, pike, and more!
The brook trout are members of the char family. Brook trout prefer small spring fed streams and ponds with sand or gravel bottom and vegetation. This species prefers to spawn over gravel in either streams or lakes, with ground water percolation or in the spring fed areas in lakes. Pre-spawning courtship of the brook trout begins with the male attempting to drive a female toward suitable gravel habitat to facilitate spawning. A receptive female chooses a spot and digs a redd. While the female brook trout is digging, the male brook trout continues his courtship activity, darting alongside the female and quivering, swimming over and under her and rubbing the female with his fins. The male spends a great deal of time driving off other males during this process. After spawning, the female brook trout covers the eggs by sweeping small pebbles at the downstream edge of the redd upstream. Once the eggs are covered, the female moves upstream to the end of the bed and then begins digging a new bed. rook trout are native to eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. There range extends as far west as eastern Minnesota. The original range of the brook trout also includes the Appalachian Mountains, where they are still found in many high elevation streams as far south as Georgia.