Was fishing this Friday afternoon in fast water with a 71/2 4wt at #5. Caught a little brookie minutes before. Kept fishing and thought I snagged until the fish jumped up to eye level with the classic markings of a Brook. It looked like about 9 inches. Powerful little guy shook out the hook like a tarpon. Barbless hooks make it good sport. How big do Brook Trout get?
I was fishing with my brother in law on a small mountian creek in Oregon and he landed a brook trout that was 16 inches, there abouts anyway. The fish looked like a football with eyes and a tail. The state record for Oregon is nine pounds, six ounces. If you check out any information on Labrador, Canada I beleive, the people that fish there catch huge brook trout. I will say that every brook trout I have caught is usually no larger the eight inches. Still fun to fish for them in the summer months. Especially with dries.
they get mighty big in new york too, i have caught a few in my home town over 4 lbs, not on flies though, corn baby, thats old school
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An eastern brook trout in putah creek ? I'd have to see it to beleive it. They do get quit large under the right conditions. Most of the ones I have caught in the sierra's are about 6 to 10 inches, but when you find em, you ussualy find alot of em. They are a very bueatiful fish. Actually brookies are not trout at all, they belong to a family of fishes known as char.
I really doubt that. If there were brookies there would be lots. Unless that fish was just introduced into the system. The same little sticklebacks and sculpin that create putah pigs would create some big brooks. They eat anything that swims. When I was little we would kill the first brook we caught and use cut bait to catch others all day. That was a stream too not a lake. I would be worried about brooks in Putah. Nobody else I know has caught one there
I caught an 18 incher in Montana last year in a creek that was my biggest one. I know there are some lakes in Oregon near Bend that have some huge ones.
Apparently brookies were planted in the creek sometime in the 60's. Last year there was a picture in Pardehsa's Market of a nice brook trout that was supposedly caught in Putah. It appeared to be between 18 and 20". There could be a few more in there but not many.
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hey captain, not in the putah, i caught it in a secret creek back home in new york, there is a creek that runs into and out of the lake my grandmother lives on, the only way to both spots are either horseback or quad, no one, i mean no one ever fishes it, within 3 miles, perfect spot, natives no stockers at that point, and you could pretty much throw anything at them and they will eat it, no fishing pressure is so fun, wish i did some fly fishin on them, but just went out there with extra light action rod and reel with 2 lb test line and had a blast, normal size is around 1-2 lbs, i have seen some over 5 lb, caught a few right at 4 lbs give or take a few oz, but beauties not mater what the size. man i need to go home and do some fly fishing.
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