He still works diligently to enhance his natural abilities, finding time to walk down back roads and wooded trails, to sketch, photograph, and develop new ideas for paintings still to come. Sam resides in Wautoma, Wisconsn, with his wife Jan and their two children. The tributary streams and rivers of Lake Michigan have two varieties of Brown Trout. Like the Rainbow and Steelhead, Browns can be native river fish or lake run fish. Lake run fish spend their life in Lake Michigan and then migrate to rivers for spawning.
Native fish spend their entire life in the stream or river.
The most distinguishing characteristics of the Brown Trout include large black and sometimes reddish-orange spots on the back and upper sides of the fish, with a pale border on the mid to lower sides of the fish. These spots are modified Xs when the fish is large. The food of the adult brown includes terrestrial and aquatic insects, worms, crayfish and fish. Native Brown Trout are also carnivorous, in that they will eat mice and small animals that fall into the water. Brown trout spawn in late autumn at the gravel rich head waters of rivers and streams.