Adirondack Explorer

On the wild side

uch of the literature on brook trout swirls around the joy some of us find in catching them. I find this peculiar. We wouldn’t celebrate the fun to be had by grabbing beavers by the tail or moose by the antlers, yet we effuse at great length about hauling in one of the most exquisitely beautiful wild animals in the Adirondacks by its lower lip. Does the

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