brook trout

[Conewago duck'n]

I’ll only eat the wild ones. I think the stickers don’t taste good but the wild ones taste great.

It’s funny how in the east rainbows out compete Brook trout in their native habitat and out west the reverse happens. I hope to take the kids out west in a few years and burn down some beaver ponds of their wild brook trout.

It's not that I don't agree with you. The natives are a lot better eating, but just too many fishermen and a finite resource in our headwaters streams, so I choose to release the natives.
Hold over stocked fish this time of year ain't too bad for eating. In fact, weve got a warm up in the weatherthis week and i may find some time Friday morning to hit our local limestone stream.

 

[H20DAD]

It's not that I don't agree with you. The natives are a lot better eating, but just too many fishermen and a finite resource in our headwaters streams, so I choose to release the natives.
Hold over stocked fish this time of year ain't too bad for eating. In fact, weve got a warm up in the weatherthis week and i may find some time Friday morning to hit our local limestone stream. View attachment 376195 View attachment 376196

Yeah of all the states I’ve trout fished pa had the weakest natives. They carpet bombed all the good water with tons of stockers.

 

[Feathers]

I fully enjoy fishing small streams but love trolling the great lakes.
This one looks a little beat up... probably been spawning on the rocky shore line.
Lake Superior in the spring is just awesome.
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Stealhead spawn in the rivers not on shorelines. Lakers and brookies will spawn on shore.

That one might be a hold over which is one that spawned in the river during the fall run and spent the winter in the river and dropped back in to the lake in the spring. That is a dandy but a little thin which is always an indicator of a hold over. Steelhead run in the spring and fall.

We do a lot of trolling for them too but I really enjoy casting for them if you can find them concentrated. If you find a pocket of them pull the trolling gear and cast. Casting can really be very productive in the fall since most of the fish push up shallow on the rocks but that is duck time for me so I never do it.

 

[texduk3]

Back on Long Island, using ultra light spinning tackle caught brookies in Caleb Smith Park, excellent eating.

 

[widgeon]

The first trout I caught on a fly was a 14 inch brook out of the Chattahoochee near Alpharetta ga., Back when all there was there was a sausage company.

Caught it on a wooly bigger in a splinter channel while in a float tube. My buddy who tied the fly couldn't believe it.

 

[ripline]

I have a series of beaver ponds on our property in the UP. Never fished them for 25 years. My kid took his ultralite to our upper pond and he fished the feeder stream and pulled out a couple nice brookies. We now go out and catch a couple a week for breakfast brookies.
Our best little secret!

 

[ducknwork]

Brookies seem to be good at eluding me. Struck out again this past week…won’t get another crack until July most likely. I want to get a fully colored up one so badly.