DULUTH — Upon further review, a fish that fooled experienced anglers and biologists alike into thinking it may be a new Minnesota state record brook trout was indeed a splake, a human-invented hybrid ...
Bangor Daily News outdoors columnist Chris Sargent holds up a splake he caught on a recent ice fishing outing. He initially mistook the fish for a brook trout. Credit: Courtesy of Chris Sargent ...
Mike Ince, of Aitkin, holds up a 6.93-pound splake caught June 7 in Lake Superior off Duluth that he and other anglers originally believed was a new Minnesota state record brook trout. But DNA testing ...