Saturday, February 22, 2025

Gorgeous Brook Trout. Throw it back and let it grow.

 


10 comments:

  1. I am a bit surprised that there is a lure that tiny...

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    1. That’s a fly, looks like an Adams

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  2. Pretty. Looks like it would make good bait

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  3. Thats as big as they get in Maine from my experiences.

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    1. In the small creeks in the PA mountains, that's a trophy.

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    2. You're not fishing in the correct places then.

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  4. Looks to be in spawning colours, I doubt it will get much bigger. In S. Oregon that's about as big as they get in the Cascade streams.

    Michael in Nelson

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  5. What a beauty! God is an awesome Creator.

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  6. Growing up fishing in Utah and Colorado, brookies were generally about 8-10” long and smaller than rainbows in the streams I fished. I would keep any brook trout that was 10” and rainbows about 12”. When I hooked a brown, 16-18” or I released it.

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  7. That's how big the average was in the brooks and ponds on the base in NAS/NAVCOMSTA Argentia when I served in the 60's.

    Nemo

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