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TroutFishingBear
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Biggest brook trout
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Mar 27, 2004, 07:03 PM »
Forgot to put this with the brown trout post
Mine is a 5pounder in a secret lake.
I have also caught many 3 pounders, avg. 2 lbs, in a camp lake. Although in this lake, I still caught plenty of 12", prob. half 12" half 16"
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SALMOTRUTTA
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Mar 28, 2004, 04:12 PM »
3 lbs.,18 inches trolling,same place as my brown.
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MickeyFinn
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Mar 28, 2004, 05:32 PM »
I have put a few 4 1/2 pounders in the net but 3 summers ago I lost one right at the side of the canoe that had to have been in the mid 5lb range and thats considered huge in the waters I fish...
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reubenpa
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Mar 28, 2004, 07:27 PM »
12.5 inches and I don't know how many pounds. Man that thing was HUGE, it was probably a good 8 LBs.... I mean ozs. It was a native in a SMAll creek. It was fun to get though
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Mackdaddy21
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Mar 28, 2004, 11:52 PM »
Big brookies are one trophy I have never caught. I did catch one from Gore Creek in Colorado, near vail, on a #6 Gold Panther Martin Spinner that was 19" and about 3 and a half pounds. Gore Creek has a fair amount of brookies in the 14 - 20 inch range, though most about a foot long.
I catch tons of brookies in remote, high mountain lakes and cold streams. In one of these lakes they average a nice 12 - 14", though I have never landed any bigger out of several thousand landed in my life.
The rest of the places just kick out tons of 8 - 12" brooks. I don't complain about that though.
No fish is as pretty to me as a wild brookie. Nor is any as tasty as an orange meated brookie. Most of them eat a lot of freshwater shrimp. These small crustaceans are common in most any brookie fishery.
I am not much of a fly fisherman, but at times in high mountain lakes, a dry fly is the best thing to use. I like 12 - 16 size red ants and mosquitoes. I have caught over 50 in a day many times on dry flies. Talk about fun. If the fish aren't rising, I like Panther Martin Spinners, and also a good old Daredevle spoon is even better when you need to cast far. If you fish flies and have a boat, use a nymph or wet fly and you'll still catch tons of them if your the type of fisherman who would rather catch 12 on a fly rod than 50 on lures or bait.
Nightcrawlers are also of course deadly on brookies. Other than bass though, I would say brookies are the only other fish I fish for where artificials often work better than bait.
Tyler
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TroutFishingBear
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Mar 29, 2004, 05:51 PM »
Don't leak out the daredevil secret I told you mack
You know the one i mean, when trout are rising...
Find a place and squander it: besides the camp lake that I mentioned earlier and the secret, unmapped lake, I have only gotten one other brookie that was over 3 lbs. (21" 3 1/4 lbs south mesa lake, colorado)
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icefishnh
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Mar 29, 2004, 08:56 PM »
biggest brookie was 18" 3-3 1/2lbs. caught on cape cod with powerbait on a 4 1/2ft rod and 4lb test
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JasonN
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Apr 03, 2004, 12:00 AM »
Only about 13 inches, but there just aren't a lot of really big ones around here, except sometimes in the lakes, which I don't fish. In most streams in my area 11 inches is a big brookie... still fun, though.
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zuke852000
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Apr 03, 2004, 12:18 PM »
I caught a 26 inch brookie in Nova Scotia... never weighed it, just caught and released.
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Apr 04, 2004, 11:15 AM »
In my part of NY (CNY...farm land...) there aren't many places to catch big brookies. Seeing on how I'm not a hardcore trout fisherman (bass bass baby
), I only fish behind my house for wild brookies once in a while. Biggest was a meager 12.5-13". I was happy to catch it though, mot of the fish are only about 8 inches.
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Browntrout08
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Apr 04, 2004, 07:32 PM »
My biggest was a 10 inch wild fish on the fly rod. Theres not many huge brookies in my neck of the woods.
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Webguy
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Apr 05, 2004, 10:57 AM »
The biggest one I caught was 16". This one below was about 20", we stocked it along with a bunch of other beauties Sunday.
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ShawnM
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Apr 06, 2004, 10:26 AM »
My bigest was a brown last OCT 9 pounds 7 OZ
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fastribs85
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Jun 03, 2004, 05:55 PM »
biggest brookie was about 10" or 12" long it was my first time fishing for them about 2 weeks ago what a blast cant wait to do it again in a few weeks
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camo_fish
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Re: Biggest brook trout
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Jun 03, 2004, 06:44 PM »
Quote from: Webguy on Apr 05, 2004, 10:57 AM
This one below was about 20.
What a beautiful fish!
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