Brook Trout Trucker Cap
Brook Trout Trucker Cap
Size & fit
One size fits most, with an adjustable plastic snapback. Structured six-panel, mid profile, pre-curved visor; mesh back.
Salvelinus fontinalis, the brook trout's name today, stitched across the front. No picture and no slogan: the people who know it will read it.
The cap
- The species' scientific name today, embroidered in white on the front, genus over species, set in EB Garamond italic.
- Richardson 112 trucker: 60% cotton, 40% polyester front with a 100% polyester mesh back.
- 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.
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.