Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition

08/26/2026

More about the Century Bog Restoration at the Headwaters of Red Brook.

When you look out at Century Bog today, you’ll see a heap of downed pitch pine saplings, sand piles, shrubs and, of course, cranberry plants. What once was a picturesque Wareham cranberry bog is now a green-brown jumble. But to Sara Quintal, a restoration ecologist for Buzzards Bay Coalition, it.....

08/25/2026

Schedule for the "Salter" Book tour is now out. Check first comment for details.

9/30/2026 - Rhode Island Trout Unlimited, West Greenwich RI (Wed 6 PM)
10/1/2026 - Bear's Den Fly FIshing Company, Taunton MA (Thur 5 PM)
10/2/2026 - Falmouth Rod and Gun Club, East Falmouth, MA (Fri 7 PM)
10/5/2026 - Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA (Monday 2 PM)
10/6/2026 - Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Waquoit MA (Tues 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)
10/7/2026 - Buzzards Bay Coalition / Kennard Barn, Plymouth MA (Wed 2 - 4 PM)
10/8/2026 - Boston Fly Casters (guests and invitation only)
10/9/2026 - Patagonia Boston, Boston (Friday 7 PM)
10/13/2026 - Southeastern Massachusetts Trout Unlimited, Middleborough MA (Tues 6:30)
10/14/2026 - Cape Cod Trout Unlimited, CCRTHS, Harwich MA (Wed 6 PM)
10/15/2026 - Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC), Dennis MA (Thurs 10 AM)
10/17/2026 - Maine Council Trout Unlimited “Salter Saturday," Freeport ME (Sat 10 - 4 PM)

08/14/2026

More ongoing good news - to come - for Fresh Brook, Wellfleet. Been a long time coming. Picture is 2009. Click through for details.

Thank you good citizens of Massachusetts!

I just learned that SRBTC has been awarded $ 25,000 to help with the next steps of restoring Fresh Brook, South Wellfleet by the Mass Environmental Trust. This money will go conduct a hydrodynamic to evaluate factors necessary to restore tidal exchange and fish passage to Fresh Brook in South Wellfleet.

Fresh Brook was once known as Trout Brook. The presence of sea-run brook trout there was historically documented by the American Impressionist artist (and fisherman) Frank W. Benson in one of his journals and later in The Sporting Art of Frank Benson.

This key history was discovered by co-founder and former Wellfleet resident Michael Hopper years ago. Below is an 2009 picture of the team at a site visit. Represented there is Cape Cod National Seashore, NOAA and the Town of Wellfleet.

Thank you also to the Baker / Polito Administration, MET, Mass Fish and Wildlife and all the good people who have helped and donated through the years!

08/13/2026

Red Brook Headwaters are Growing

New habitat for Red Brook Salters at Former Century Bog

This is great news for sea-run brook trout everywhere.

A century-old cranberry bog straddling Plymouth and Wareham is finally becoming a wetland again.

07/29/2026

SALTER is out - copies are shipping today!

Link includes "Buy Now" button. All proceeds go to the author. See less

Tom Pero has written the definitive story of the history of sea-run brook trout restoration from the very beginning - in part, because he was there. Fans of any brook trout will be interested in this story - as this history may well be repeated on other brook trout streams. Who knows - possibly this...

06/20/2026

A short photo essay on habitat restoration - and lampreys...

While this site is about sea-run brook trout, it is also about the larger conversation about dam removal, habitat restoration and the preservation of natural biodiversity. For without free running streams, sea-run brook trout would have simply disappeared into history - much like the dozen or so ana

05/31/2026

To fans of sea-run brook trout everywhere - I am delighted to announce this beautiful book today. "Salter" will be arriving in bookstores this June!

05/10/2026

An update from Martha's Vineyard.

A tale told too often.

Thanks go out to Sheriff's Meadow and Nelson Sigelman.

"One obvious issue with the impoundment is that the water is heated to an extreme degree by exposing a limited flow through to a wide, shallow area."

05/10/2026

Nice - looks a little bit like Frank Benson's work.

'Riverman'
Etching by Ogden Pleissner
From The Trophy Art Collection donated by Mike Monier
2019.051.099

01/27/2026

A retelling of the loss of the Santuit. Well done but still sad.

Read Warren Winder's "How to Kill a Salter Stream" (2015) in the comments for further information.

When President Grover Cleveland, an avid outdoorsman, went fishing on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, he hired Irving Oakley of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe to take him. Sea-run brook trout were still abundant in the late 1800s, and the Mashpee Wampanoag were known as “guides to the stars” for their ski...