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Title: Biggest brook trout
Post by: TroutFishingBear on 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"
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: SALMOTRUTTA on Mar 28, 2004, 04:12 PM: 3 lbs.,18 inches trolling,same place as my brown.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: MickeyFinn on 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...
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: reubenpa on 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
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Mackdaddy21 on 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
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: TroutFishingBear on 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)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: icefishnh on 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
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: JasonN on 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. :)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: zuke852000 on Apr 03, 2004, 12:18 PM: I caught a 26 inch brookie in Nova Scotia... never weighed it, just caught and released.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: ChenBassHead on 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 8) ), 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.

-Zach
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Browntrout08 on 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.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Webguy on 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.

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kneedeepclub.org%2FStockings%2F2004%2Fbrook.jpg&hash=55bd87abb6c1320c575bf78c5c188feb)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: ShawnM on Apr 06, 2004, 10:26 AM: My bigest was a brown last OCT 9 pounds 7 OZ
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sharemation.com%2FShawnMercer%2FShawn%2520%2526%2520Brown%2520trout.jpg&hash=f08c9753baac19c55c1d63b2f304df91)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: fastribs85 on 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
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: camo_fish on Jun 03, 2004, 06:44 PM: Quote from: Webguy on Apr 05, 2004, 10:57 AM
This one below was about 20.

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kneedeepclub.org%2FStockings%2F2004%2Fbrook.jpg&hash=55bd87abb6c1320c575bf78c5c188feb)

What a beautiful fish!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: FLAG on Jun 04, 2004, 08:58 AM: mine was 19 1/2" and the weight was 4#'s. A tiny pond in Maine.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Cider on Jun 04, 2004, 10:17 AM: Caught in Pond Z, NH:

My biggest 21 1/2" or so and around 3 - 4 lbs, but that is a guess on the weight...

Here is a pretty lousy picture of it...

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg31.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv94%2FCider%2FFishing%2Fcolemantrout.jpg&hash=0434ed4dcde7b5b4a301b0dda3623e65)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: camo_fish on Jul 11, 2004, 06:13 AM: That is one h#ll of a mess of brookies.
Quote from: GodOfSteelhead on Jul 10, 2004, 01:11 AM
U GUYS HAVE A LIMIT THERE CIDER???????????????
yea, that is a limit for 3, in my neck of the woods.
M-M good.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Cider on Jul 12, 2004, 09:09 AM: Quote from: GodOfSteelhead on Jul 10, 2004, 01:11 AM
U GUYS HAVE A LIMIT THERE CIDER???????????????

These fish are the result of a multi-day fishing trip...

Quote from: Cider on Mar 10, 2004, 08:30 AM
My wife and I keep our legal possession limit for the season ( 2 x daily limit x 2 = 20 fish total) so that we can have meals of them in the winter and reminisce about good times catching them.

Quote from: Cider on Mar 16, 2004, 10:36 PM
Quote from: icefishnh on Mar 16, 2004, 08:20 PM
cider, if you dont mind me asking, how do you get your limit? 2 times limit times 2...??? im confused

Let me explain... I am talking about a possession limit, not a daily limit. Don't confuse the two. When you are off on a camping/fishing trip and will be fishing for several days at a time, you are allowed to have a possession limit. So, the possession limit is twice your daily limit. This also goes for the number of fish you have in your freezer at any given time during the year.

In NH the daily limit is 5 trout or 5 pounds whichever comes first. So, your possession limit would be 10 trout or 10 pounds whichever comes first! This allows you to take extended fishing trips and be able to keep more than just a daily limit but still protect the fisheries by limiting total possession.

I also need to tell you that in some of the photos I have posted here, you see a lot of trout. My wife goes with me for this particular trip each summer and she likes to trout fish nearly as much as I do. Half of the fish in some of the photos are her's. Of course, I always tell her that her half is the group of small ones! ;D These photos were taken over the last three or four trips North. We go once every summer for a week.

I don't keep many fish throughout the season except for when we take this trip each summer. Then we both get our possession limit so we have trout to eat in the winter months!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Jigwiggler on Jul 13, 2004, 08:47 AM: Quote from: Cider on Jul 12, 2004, 09:09 AM

In NH the daily limit is 5 trout or 5 pounds whichever comes first. So, your possession limit would be 10 trout or 10 pounds whichever comes first!

So does this mean that if you catch a 10 lber that you cannot keep any more fish for 2 days or until the first is consumed? ;D ;)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: TroutFishingBear on Jul 13, 2004, 11:49 AM: That's a strange limit... here in a lake, for brook trout, it is 4 fish of any size and you can keep an additional 10 8" or under.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Mikepike on Mar 07, 2005, 12:32 PM: Caught three 16" brookies one day in a lake nearby, never weighed them
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: cnyfishing on Mar 09, 2005, 02:43 PM: A huge 8 incher!! But for my 5th fish on a fly rod, 1st trout on a fly rod I was real happy.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: AD on Mar 14, 2005, 07:55 PM: I have caught them probly in the 1-18 inch class, but at the hatchery where I worked we had some broodstock in the 3-5 years old class, some probably would have gone 5 pounds.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Mikepike on Apr 03, 2005, 08:19 PM: While i have my photo bucket, ill show you guys a pic of three of my biggest ones, all caught on the same day and all where 16 inch!
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv702%2Fmikepike%2Fspecks.bmp&hash=afc7fca88f13e58df2466d4346caeb27)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Kodiak Commando on Apr 03, 2005, 08:44 PM: My biggest was just under 6 pounds out of boulder mountain in utah. Before i was 10 years old i already had caught 20 fish around 5 pounds. That place is still a world class fisherie but not as good as it use to be, my father said who has fished for big brookies in eastern canada said the boulder was just as good as those places in the 70's, he used to catch 60 fish a day sometimes 100 with the same lure, a jake spin a lure. Then more and more people started to fish it and articles were written on it and it's gone down hill ever since :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: bigredfishing on Apr 03, 2005, 10:14 PM: my biggest wild brookie was 12", but my largest ever was a 19" brute - straight off the stocking truck :-\
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: PGKris on Apr 04, 2005, 12:57 PM: Wish I had a photo! 4 pounder through the ice last year!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: troutbum on Apr 29, 2005, 09:00 AM: my biggest brookie was 18 1/2" 3 lbs or so, drifting a nightcrawler/lake clear warbler combo on Murphy Lake... caught with a ultralight spinning combo with 4# vanish line
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: MikeThePike on May 07, 2005, 10:39 PM: My biggest was probably around a 13" stockie.

Got a beautiful 12" native male yesterday that I wish I got a pic of as well as 60 smaller natives in a few hours.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Bigfish57 on May 08, 2005, 04:47 PM: Mine is 19" I caught this beauty a month ago and its headed for the wall. Some day I hope to break the 20" mark

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv213%2Fblack-phoenix%2F100_0108.jpg&hash=b32eed497f3863cea926bd4b02250331)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: jacksmelt on May 12, 2005, 05:12 PM: i got a 24in. 4.5ilber on a flyrod in soldier pond when i was 16. gave it to my grandfather and he ate it! i wish i had that fish now it would be on my wall. next biggest was caught on a kastmaster trolling a shallow remote lake 21in 3.5 lbs. het ant. ill bring you there when you come up mem. day weekend. maybe youll best youre current record. im gonna hit it this weekend. ill let you know how i do.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: deerhunter on Jun 10, 2005, 07:11 AM: caught a 5 lber ice fishing and a 3.5 lber on worms in a dead water . what a fight.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: TroutFishingBear on Jun 13, 2005, 05:38 PM: Lots of you guys get stocked brookies? That's kinda wierd, all of ours are from wild spawn. I mean they were stocked like 100 years ago but since then its been spawning mostly.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Pasquatch on Jun 13, 2005, 06:27 PM: Natives over here often don't have the forage base to get very large. Stockies are 10-15" when they come in, so their chances to reach 4-5 pounds are better. Natives are fairly hard to come upon in my neck of the woods. :(
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: trapperdirk on Jun 22, 2005, 01:09 AM: Well my best is a 6 and 1/4 pounder but have seen bigger caught and by gosh I wanna get one this winter . As a rule most of mine are in the 1 1/2 range and up to 4 in the lakes I fish through the ice . By far my favourite fish to catch especially the footballers . ;D

TD
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: TroutFishingBear on Jun 22, 2005, 12:42 PM: don't get to icefish em over here much...there is only one lake you could icefish with them in it but it is a small population and at 11,000+ ft. in elevation so the snow is like 6 ft. deep on the lake and the ice is like 3 ft. thick. The lake I'm speaking of was still completely frozen over 2 weeks ago :o do they fight good through the ice trapper or are they wusses like lakers?
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: PGKris on Jun 22, 2005, 06:15 PM: The big ones are the best fighters through the ice. Anything over 2 pounds will give you a run for your money because they head shake so much it's tough to get them lined up with the hole.......is it winter yet? ;D
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: MikeVT on Jun 23, 2005, 11:19 AM: Got a 15" from the Battenkill 2 years ago, my best native to date. I have a small stream next to my house loaded with 8-10" natives that make a tasty meal anytime, brookies are always in the mood to hit a small silver spinner.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Fishingking on Jul 11, 2005, 06:38 PM: 11" er my dad got one 13" out of a very small trout stream on our property it probably holds less than 100 natives no stokies in it
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: TGF on Jul 15, 2005, 06:54 AM: Quote from: TroutFishingBear on Jun 22, 2005, 12:42 PM
don't get to icefish em over here much...there is only one lake you could icefish with them in it but it is a small population and at 11,000+ ft. in elevation so the snow is like 6 ft. deep on the lake and the ice is like 3 ft. thick. The lake I'm speaking of was still completely frozen over 2 weeks ago :o do they fight good through the ice trapper or are they wusses like lakers?

You just described icefishing in northern BC in our higher elevation lakes. Its do-able otherwise we don't fish :-[
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: PGKris on Jul 18, 2005, 01:13 AM: Amen! Gotta love hitting the bottom of the handle on the auger! Is it winter yet?
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Hilltopper on Jul 19, 2005, 09:14 AM: 15" 1.8 lb hook-jawed male earlier this year. Was feeling pretty godd about myself until about 45 minutes later when my buddy caught his biggest ever...18" 2.5 lbs. This was in a Caledonia County pond in Northern VT.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: TroutSlayer on Sep 01, 2005, 03:58 PM: No photo, but mine was just over six from near Trapper! Here's a few photos of others!

Two Specks from a lake near Trapper
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cimcom.ca%2F24apr04%2Fother%2Fb1.jpg&hash=99ff34f9837a33c37f2cabd28e57226a)

A Speck from the place Whisperwoman knows
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cimcom.ca%2F24apr04%2Fother%2Fb10.jpg&hash=4489d9a14675eb2f2a641888818fcda5)

A few more from Trappers area!
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cimcom.ca%2F24apr04%2Fother%2Fb34.jpg&hash=4aca5c07b3a71c5874c1cd3851a31c26)

Bro John with an Ice Speck
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A nice Speck
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cimcom.ca%2F24apr04%2Fother%2Fb7.jpg&hash=082df9a38de640a40493141cd9bd8f21)

Lake Burlie Speck
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cimcom.ca%2F24apr04%2Fother%2Fb53.jpg&hash=0cb948870cda4ba4bf7762e9807627ed)

Loon Lake Brookie
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cimcom.ca%2F24apr04%2Fcolours.jpg&hash=c91a62417cd8b8f6b6f81d49a09bfe45)

That's it for now folks, testing the limits of the board ;D
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: trapperdirk on Sep 27, 2005, 12:54 AM: Great pics of the king of fish T.S. and this area sure does produce some dandys as you well know . ;) ;D

TD
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: crowkiller on Mar 13, 2006, 07:17 PM: Quote from: devil-man on Sep 27, 2005, 01:10 AM
God-D@mn! I wish we had brookies of that size down here in WNY!
we do you are just looking in the wrong places
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: JimP on Mar 14, 2006, 01:05 PM: My best was a 19.5 inch fish that was barely 3 pounds, caught ice fishing in MA about 30 years ago! -Jim
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: devil-man on Mar 18, 2006, 04:59 AM: Quote from: crowkiller on Mar 13, 2006, 07:17 PM
we do you are just looking in the wrong places
Yeah- I think I found them this past winter:
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi36.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe48%2Fwitchain%2FDSC01176.jpg&hash=29a55e9c724e1069e4336defd1883fee)
19 and 16.5"

Sorry if everyone is getting sick of these pics. I'm not!
8)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: PGKris on Mar 24, 2006, 12:13 PM: Nice d-man! I've never seen those before!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: JimP on Mar 24, 2006, 05:32 PM: VERY nice! -Jim
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Webguy on Mar 25, 2006, 04:00 PM: devil-man, how could anyone get sick of seeing such fatties?
wide bodies!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Cargo on Mar 25, 2006, 10:40 PM: devil -man,
Awesome brookies! This is the first time I've seen them great fish.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: crappie boy on Jul 10, 2006, 09:44 PM: Quote from: Webguy on 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.

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kneedeepclub.org%2FStockings%2F2004%2Fbrook.jpg&hash=55bd87abb6c1320c575bf78c5c188feb)
crappie boy good good good goog brook trout ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: AD on Jul 10, 2006, 10:06 PM: I know of a state fish hatchery right now, that cannot stock its brook trout brood stock out because they'd break the state record if caught :laugh: Id say a few of them go about 5 + pounds.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Pasquatch on Jul 15, 2006, 05:08 PM: D Man- Sweet brookies! I've seen that pic several times, but it never gets old!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Kyle on Jul 27, 2006, 08:09 PM: here are my biggest...all caught this past winter

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv610%2Fflyfisherman%2Fooogaboooga.jpg&hash=412761eb5c9e4e5f2fcc028a51398057)

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv610%2Fflyfisherman%2FIM000585.jpg&hash=73681f6a90b03dbfd571115597377db3)

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv610%2Fflyfisherman%2Fbrookie2222.jpg&hash=4a0f802b639811f9d362e54a97244fb2)\

pretty sure most of you have seen them(if you go to iceshanty)

now im REALLY missing the ice :'(
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: JETSTER on Jul 27, 2006, 08:45 PM: My biggest was a 20" stockie,Sorry no pics!

Has anyone ever seen the ARCTIC CHAR,they look exactly like a Brookie???????
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: PGKris on Jul 28, 2006, 03:55 PM: Arctic Char look nothing like brookies. Go ask the boys on the Alaska board. Arctic Char might even be prettier than brookies.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: bigredfishing on Jul 28, 2006, 04:36 PM: Quote from: PGKris on Jul 28, 2006, 03:55 PM
Arctic Char look nothing like brookies. Go ask the boys on the Alaska board. Arctic Char might even be prettier than brookies.

I dunno PG, to some these two could look like Giant Brookies in full spawning color

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.thezone.net%2F%7Ecanada%2Fchar.gif&hash=e6343068ea76808a85656722cf572889)

same with this fish

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alaskasport.com%2Fimages%2FFishPics%2FRGibsonChar.jpg&hash=3145ac803aee4d03cf4f1d54b7794afb)

We used to raise them at college, and when you got them in a tank together, the only good way to tell the difference was the vermiculations on the brookies.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: JETSTER on Jul 28, 2006, 05:22 PM: Thanks for the pics BIGRED!

For someone to say "Arctic Char look nothing like brookies",they must be color blind. :-\
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: meadowpikeman on Jul 28, 2006, 05:35 PM: a big ole splake can be pretty similar to a big brookie too
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi27.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc195%2Fmlpikeman%2Fnov02.jpg&hash=e57ac97e2ae49ceae85b404f49730ee6)
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi27.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc195%2Fmlpikeman%2Fnov04.jpg&hash=7cc13525f890abc99d00d4e28c98473b)
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi27.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc195%2Fmlpikeman%2Ffernopener.jpg&hash=2c81307d4dd3c1dae59549e7bd7f2556)
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi27.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc195%2Fmlpikeman%2Fkype.jpg&hash=4be82d67b3d895956419370beada4fc5)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: JETSTER on Jul 28, 2006, 06:24 PM: Those SPLAKE also look like brookies.

Whats the storie on them,Are they land locked or Ocean run?
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: PGKris on Jul 28, 2006, 09:09 PM: Well, colorblind I might be but I can tell the difference. Artic Char have a much deeper fork on the tail, and as Bigred pointed out, Brookies have vermiculations on the back and dorsal fin. Splake, actually, look a lot more like arctic char than brooks do. Just me.
Kris
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: PGKris on Jul 28, 2006, 09:10 PM: And it seems to me (from looking at pics) that the spots on arctic char are usually bigger than those on brookies. But that could be fish size talking.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Thestanimal on Aug 01, 2006, 03:28 PM: My largest is 3.25 lbs-I never measured the length. This one was 2.75lbs I caught last spring.

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi47.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff173%2FThestanimal%2FRangley2.jpg&hash=7f976958e8c1279971c1ed95f8104ef3)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Thestanimal on Aug 01, 2006, 07:56 PM: Quote from: Red_Fin on Aug 01, 2006, 04:33 PM
sweet fish stan. Looks like a sweet Canoe also!!

THANKS....The boat is Salmon 44's Grandlaker-the thing is awesome to fish out of.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: PGKris on Aug 01, 2006, 08:31 PM: That's a nice clean brookie man. Right on!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Ashnohgrimbatul on Aug 28, 2006, 08:53 PM: 23.25", caught last week in northern Manitoba. 8)

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Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: devil-man on Aug 28, 2006, 11:29 PM: WOW!!! :o
That thing is bigger than you!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Fishingking on Aug 28, 2006, 11:37 PM: Is that thing a record its huge :)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: pikemaster789 on Aug 28, 2006, 11:51 PM: thats ginormous
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: pikemaster789 on Aug 28, 2006, 11:52 PM: thats ginormous
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Thestanimal on Sep 01, 2006, 07:00 AM: WOW!!! Beautiful fish...would make a great hand carved mount!!!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: rainbow on Sep 01, 2006, 08:16 PM: Never get tired of big trout Pics :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: pikemaster789 on Feb 25, 2007, 08:26 PM: Quote from: mttrout on Feb 25, 2007, 07:41 PM
Here is my wife's biggest brookie, caught today. ;D

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real nice fish, ive never gotten one through the ice!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: pikemaster789 on Feb 26, 2007, 07:13 PM: Quote from: mttrout on Feb 26, 2007, 11:12 AM
No ice bro! Open water, on the river!

ahh gotchya, diregard my other one. The snow in the background gives the allusion of being on the ice. Ive been thinking about trying some trout streams in the mddle of the winter
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: SalvelinusFontinalis on Apr 04, 2007, 02:30 PM: The Biggest Brook Trout I have is a 27" 8 pounder I had mounted back in 1988 (Broadback River) Canada
I also have a beautiful 20" 4 pounder mounted, that I got in one of my secret spots here in Maine
and last but no least ! I was out on a small pond in Northern Maine with a few buddys my first fish of the day was a 20" 4 1/2 pound brookie then a short 40 minutes later a nailed a 21" 5 1/2 pound Brookie ! 10 pounds of trout ouch these fish are also mounted by David Footer of Lewiston Maine ! I also let one go that day that weighed in at about 3 pounds (2 fish limit) the kicker is my budddy nailed a beautifu 6 pound brook trout that same day in the other boat ! all in all it was a great day and my best day of brookie fishing ever !
Still keeping that spot a secret ! LOL
sf (eric)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: greenz on May 17, 2007, 08:23 PM: nice fish man way to go!!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: anthonyebola on Jul 02, 2007, 12:50 PM: Those Montana Brookies are gorgeous... they just look like they were made by Pixar.
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: pikemaster789 on Jul 02, 2007, 10:40 PM: Quote from: mttrout on Jul 02, 2007, 01:30 PM
Thanks!! That fish is actually quite a nice specimen for where it was caught. High mountain COLD creek, loaded with 6-12 inch cutties, bows and brookies. About every four or five years someone pulls something out like that. He had a seven inch trout in his belly.
those things are pigs. I cut open a rainbow this past weekend and he had a ciggarette butt in his stomach :cookoo:
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: bigbrookie on Apr 19, 2008, 11:11 AM: 22" my guess was right about 5 lbs. I've gotten 1 that was most likely bigger, but no ruler or picture. i couldn't get my hand around her she was so fat!!! I've seen pics of some 20"s come out of the same lake and mine looked allot bigger. when i caught the 22" er 3 years ago we thought about paddling out to submitt it for a record, but decided to let her swim another day. we've also caught dozens in the 18-20 range, but some of these ponds were stocked with splake, so it hard to tell if they were natural brookies. 6 days till i get to chase them again!!!!
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Litchfield Fisher on Apr 20, 2008, 09:21 AM: 20 inches and 5 or so pounds
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: NH Trout Fisherman on Jul 10, 2008, 07:45 PM: My buddy caught this one up in NH a couple weeks ago
I got one this big a few years back in the same spot....

This one was 21" 3.25lbs ( A NH "Trophy" is 16" 2+lbs)
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi78.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj106%2F1keith%2FMattsBrookie.jpg&hash=7aaf6b8b85bedb241a709b7426b0424f)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: ALASKANSS on Jul 19, 2008, 11:40 AM: here's a 3lb brookie from this year.mounted a 5.2 lb two years ago,both from lakes in northern maine.
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Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: TroutFishinTommer on Sep 06, 2008, 08:24 PM: (https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi207.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fbb246%2Fherefisheefishee%2F8May2006WindfallHeritageStrainMount.jpg&hash=43bed862911b3006fa2ed845b77ebf76)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: slowroller on Jul 14, 2009, 10:57 PM: (https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi719.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fww193%2Fpikeslammer%2F1.jpg&hash=8a42b20536056c9ef2bcd40ab22b6959)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: NH Trout Fisherman on Aug 07, 2009, 06:22 PM: Caught this one a few weeks ago...

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Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: combsey going to catchem on May 02, 2010, 10:18 PM: (https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi693.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fvv295%2Fjasoncombs61%2Fnewpics013-1.jpg&hash=ad4105e111ac46a9cd862657bf5d5bf9)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: combsey going to catchem on May 02, 2010, 10:19 PM: 15 in my biggest so far
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: davejohnson2 on May 13, 2011, 01:04 PM: well here in NY they dont stock them, so all brookies are wild, i got my first one a few years ago in the owego creek, 16", a big one for the area, caught a 13" two days ago in a stream i could have jumped over, and got a 9" er yesterday in the otselic

heres the 13"

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and the lil guy

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Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: WANNAKETCHUM on Jun 03, 2011, 12:13 AM: Dave....NY does stock Brook Trout. Check the DEC website. Fall creek is one that I know of and I'm sure the Adirondack counties get a lot of Brookies. But like you I would much rather catch the natives. ;D...WK
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: davejohnson2 on Jun 08, 2011, 08:06 PM: yep your right, i meant for the area i fish, lol. i heard hatchery brookies are dumber than wilds, is that true?
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: MGK on Jun 08, 2011, 08:33 PM: My biggest is 20.5"

(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1004.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faf169%2FMGK1%2Fsalmonandtrout.jpg&hash=783849b8605dd482560f80dcad96e10d)

My older brother caught this brookie when he was 4. I'm holding the mount, 24" 5.5lbs

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Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: countyboy on Jun 16, 2011, 09:27 AM: (https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1128.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fm492%2Fdanp4%2Fth_0528111644-1.jpg&hash=cf788c77931434e7d3ce74b560942607) (http://s1128.photobucket.com/albums/m492/danp4/?action=view&current=0528111644-1.jpg)

My boy holding one I caught 2 weeks ago
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: WANNAKETCHUM on Jun 16, 2011, 09:44 AM: No fair!!! You Mainahs have a monopoly on big Brookies!.....LOL... ;D...Nice Brookie, you folks in Maine are surely blessed. My Son lived in Maine for a year and I was fortunate to make a trip up and fish with him once. You definitely have a lot of nice waters up there....WK
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Walter on Jun 16, 2011, 09:59 AM: (https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq32%2FErvin10221022%2FTims20brookie22-2.jpg&hash=e2f2a9cbe1a735eef33ce2b2fab17c39)

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Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: Litchfield Fisher on Jun 18, 2011, 01:09 PM: (https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi279.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fkk125%2FLitchfieldFisher%2Fcsddss.jpg&hash=799ae558136076c281b494ee6621d88d)
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: massNtrash on Apr 16, 2013, 09:36 AM: I caught a 3.5 pounder on Friday but my biggest is about 6 pounds 24.5 inches
Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: TunkTroller on Jun 08, 2013, 10:18 PM: Heres a few from this year. The one I'm holding on shore is about 5 1/2. The 20 incher is 5 lb in the photo with the other fatty. The fatty was about 4 3/4. I have official weights but do not recall off the top of my head

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Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: ooberfish on Apr 22, 2014, 03:32 PM: 22" 5lb.

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22.25" 4lb, and my daughters brook was 17" 3lb.
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Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: waterwolf603 on Jul 15, 2014, 11:50 AM: ooberfish those are some serious brookies ahhhh i dream of a 5lber some day i have been in the hunt more lately for them

nothing over 3.5 to just shy of 4 lbs for me

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Title: Re: Biggest brook trout
Post by: WANNAKETCHUM on Jul 15, 2014, 01:14 PM: ooberfish,

Nice Brookies!!! It's great that you get your daughter out there with you to share in the fun! ;D My Mom loved to fish as well and although she never ice fished, she did love to trout fish had me traipsing along with her to many of our local streams and ponds before I was even in school.

WK