![]() Ive peppered the whole lake, tried every lure and retrieve. The last couple of months though I couldnt catch more than 1 a day to save my life. ![]() The brook trout, which is the smaller parent, has only 23-55 (usually less than 50) pyloric caeca, while the intermediate-sized hybrid has 65-85, and the lake trout, the larger parent, has 93-208 caeca (most often 120-180). I used to be able to catch splake (unique and regular) like, well, catching fish in a barrel. It can be positively identified by the number of pyloric caeca, the worm-like appendages on the intestinal tract right after the stomach. In coloration and makings, the splake more closely resembles the brook trout. The tail of the splake is not as deeply forked as that of the lake trout, and more closely resembles the slightly indented tail of the brook trout. The shape of the tail is also a combination of the brook trout’s square tail and the lake trout’s more lunate tail. The body shape is intermediate between the heavier lake trout and the slimmer brook trout. ![]() The splake is difficult to identify externally because it resembles both parents in different aspects. The name “splake” is a combination of the words “speckled” from the speckled (or brook) trout and lake trout.
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