Splake Vs Lake Trout

And a splakes head looks much like a lake trout.

Splake vs lake trout. The thumbnails below link to larger photos. The Happy Camper heads out on his annual Spring fishing trip for Algonquin Park trout. Much of Ontario from the small brooks of southern Ontario farmland to the larger rivers ponds and lakes of the North.

2017-12-27 Anglers often have difficulty distinguishing splake top from speckle trout bottom But specks have square tails while spake are V-shaped. Splake is a cross between a Lake Trout and a Brook Trout. 2017-01-24 Splake are the hybrid offspring created when a male speckled trout mates with a female lake trout Theyre a fascinating fish to be sure.

The only similarity I have ever noticed is that Splake will have a forked tail like Lakers other than that I cant even think of how one would confuse the 2. Brook Trout right has only a slightly forked tail. They were artificially bred and stocked into the Great Lakes but occur naturally in the small inland lakes in our area.

Splake middle has a moderately forked tail. Splake are a cross between Lake Trout and Brook Trout. Splake has a moderately forked tail.

A few are caught in the spring up in shallow water and a few more in the fall. Where a Speckled Trout or Brook Trout is found. They are a species that local anglers enjoy catching because of the fight they put.

Splake and brook trout have very similar coloration patterns making it very difficult for the untrained eye to distinguish between the two species. Northern Lake Huron has been stocked with Lake Trout since 1973 by the US. Because one day you find them acting like brook trout while the next day they are behaving like lake trout.