splake
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- noun
- /splāk/
- Specialized
- Copper Harbor may be a long way from anywhere, but it's home to Michigan's best-known splake fishery.
- splake and brown trout
- Lake trout and splake
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Martin said there's no telling what sort of lures the splake will want on any given day.
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Splake, for the uninitiated, are hybrids produced in the hatchery by crossing female lake trout with male brook trout.
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One hour, and we had four splake in the boat.
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Mark Martin shows off a Copper Harbor splake.
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"I walked out there off the launch ramp in the harbor and could see the splake swimming around, so I started fishing for them."
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Kurt Kossuth nets a splake for Mark Martin.
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It was a nice fish, about 17 inches, and just what we'd come looking for: a splake.
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Angling for Splake at the Edge of the World: Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula
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They switched out to floating Rapalas, which presented a different problem: the splake were so frenetic they pulled off or jumped off by the time you got the planer boards off the line.
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After a long day of fishing, we proudly brought home two splake for dinner.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word splake is made by joining speckled (the brook trout, often called the 'speckled' trout) and lake (from the lake trout). So a splake is a fish that is a hybrid of those two trout.