The lake trout is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean. The lake trout is prized both as a game fish and as a food fish. Those caught with dark coloration may be called mud hens.
Lake trout
A lake trout
A lake trout in spawning dress.
Fishermen drying a net and hauling lake trout; part of a 1940 mural in the Sturgeon Bay Post Office.
Salvelinus is a genus of salmonid fish often called char or charr; some species are called "trout". Salvelinus is a member of the subfamily Salmoninae within the family Salmonidae. The genus has a northern circumpolar distribution, and most of its members are typically cold-water fish that primarily inhabit fresh waters. Many species also migrate to the sea.
Salvelinus
Salvelinus killinensis, Scotland
Salvelinus alpinus, Salvelinus colii and Salvelinus grayi, Irish taxa
Whitespotted char, Salvelinus leucomaenis