How To Identify A Bull Trout

While some of the species shown here may not look exactly like the trout in your area the identification characteristics are common enough that you can use them to identify the trout in your streams.

How to identify a bull trout. Namaycush or brook trout S. The bull trout lacks black spots on the dorsal fin. Bull Trout feed on smaller baitfish bugs larvae and Salmon eggs.

Look at the fish along the top of the back. Know where bull trout live See bull trout characteristics to identify where bull trout may live. As a rule one can be fairly certain that any char other than the lake trout S.

Bull trout are protected by both state and. As a rule one can be fairly certain that any char other than the lake trout S. They also are good indicators of healthy rivers and lakes.

If it does it is a bull trout. Fins are spotless except for a few yellow dots at the base of the tail. If you are fishing.

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The bull trout lake trout and brook trout are all chars. The bull trout resembles the Dolly Varden in external characters and will probably require laboratory analysis by a scientist familiar with the species to be positively identified. If you are in doubt-throw it out.