Brook trout
Brook trout are native to Minnesota. You'll find them in streams along the North Shore and in the clean, cold headwaters of southeastern Minnesota trout streams.
Brown trout
![Brown trout](https://images.dnr.state.mn.us/fisheries/fishes/streamtrout/brown_trout.jpg)
Rainbow trout
![Rainbow trout](https://images.dnr.state.mn.us/fisheries/fishes/streamtrout/rainbow_trout.jpg)
Southeastern Minnesota has mostly brown trout, native to Germany, and rainbow trout, native to the western United States. Both varieties were introduced to Minnesota in the late 1800s.
![Image of a stream](https://images.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_wildlife/marketing/fisheries/stream-reports.jpg)
Stream reports
![Angler holding a stream trout in witner](https://images.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_wildlife/marketing/fisheries/emt_winter-trout.jpg)
Hot tips for winter trout
The deeply carved coulees of southeast Minnesota offer great year-round trout fishing in 720 miles of designated streams.
![Angler holding a fish](https://images.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_wildlife/features/caughtfish.jpg)
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![Fish being properly released after being caught](https://images.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_wildlife/features/catchandrelease.jpg)
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