Brook Trout Cap
Brook Trout Cap
Size & fit
One size fits most: about 22⅞ in around, with an adjustable fabric strap and metal slider. Unstructured six-panel, low-to-mid profile, curved bill (about 2¾ in).
Female and male, the male in autumn spawning colours with his hooked jaw and orange belly.
The cap
- The plate's chest mark, printed on the front as drawn, with LINNAEUS beneath. Printed rather than embroidered, so nothing is redrawn.
- Comfort Colors Sunwashed Cap: 100% cotton twill, brushed and washed for a broken-in feel.
- Spot clean; don't put it in the dryer.
Shipping & production
Each one is made for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days. Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay; items from different makers may arrive in separate boxes.
Returns
If your cap arrives damaged, misprinted or defective, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every cap is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Plate 003
From the book
- Species
- Salvelinus fontinalis
- As named in the book
- Brook Trout; Speckled Trout.
- Artist
- S. F. Denton
- Book
- Second Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York, 1897
“always attractive because of its beauty and grace of movement.”
Then and now
Not a true trout at all, but a char, a cousin of the lake trout and Arctic char.
Field notes
It isn't actually a trout. It's a char.
Denton painted both fish: the female in her everyday colors, and the male in autumn spawning dress, his belly flushed orange and his lower jaw hooked into a kype. Both carry the classic marks: pale wormlike tracks across an olive back, red spots ringed in blue, and lower fins edged white, then black, then red.
It isn't a trout at all. The brook trout is a char, kin to the lake trout and the Arctic char. Its name, fontinalis, means "of springs," and that's where it lives: cold, clean headwaters along the Appalachians from Georgia to Maine and north into Canada.
That need for cold, clean water has made it a measure of a stream's health, and it's why the fish has lost ground. In the Chesapeake Bay drainage alone, brook trout are gone from an estimated 60 percent of their historical range.