No, I wasn't referring to you, but rather others who said (Their opinion) that is was
definitely a brookie. I said from the git/go that I wasn't sure of it's identity.....just that it didn't look "right." I submitted the photo to professionals just like the OP did and THEY are the ones who said it
wasn't a brook trout. Anyone who disputes the identification of fish by fisheries biologists can take it up with them.