Troutbum11 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 I caught this 12 1/2 inch Brook Trout Today on the Upper Savage River in Maryland. I was drifting a double nymph rig and it took the hares ear #14. Amazing fish! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shoebop 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 She's a beaut! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chase Creek 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 A 14" Brookie from a small stream that feeds the Manistee River in Wexford County, Mich. Stream was about 15-18 feet wide at it's widest, and had only caught 8-10 inchers before that, so this guy was a complete surprise. Taken on a PT nymph. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kudu 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 Congrats! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Double_Taper 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 Awesome, nice fish! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
netabrookie 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 That is a nice looking brookie Troutbum11. That thing looks like it has been eating well and living a good life. After years of chasing the little rascals, my biggest ever was one that was just under 15 inches out of a rather small stream. Years ago, when I first discovered this forum I had a picture in my profile of a trout that was a little shy of 16 inches. My uncle swore that it was the biggest brook trout that he had ever seen so I believed in his experience and thought that it was a brookie that didn't have the beautiful coloring because I caught it in the middle of summer. I really didn't think it was a brookie but he had fished all of his life and convinced me that it was. I came across that old snap shot a while back and felt rather stupid because it is just a decent sized brown. I guess my uncle had had one too many sips of his shine when he saw the fish and I think that I had one or two too many for believing him. I was farther up in the mountains a few years back fishing a little brookie stream that I could jump across and got into a fish that really bowed my rod. I was casting into a small pool under a bridge and hooked up with, what I thought, the grand daddy of all brookies. After a short fight I got a glimpse of it and it wasn't a brookie at all, but an 18 inch rainbow. In that instant all of my hopes and dreams of a huge brookie went away but at least it was a good fight. I'm still not sure how that rainbow got so far up that stream and how it got so big and I will always wish that it had been a brookie..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JasonJones 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 for me its a toss up between these from the same trip... Â Â This guy was skinny but stupid long... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Troutbum11 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 Thanks netabrookie, Â That's an interesting story. The river where I caught this fish at is stocked pretty heavy with rainbows but the brook trout are wild. Once in a while I will tie into a nice rainbow and pray that its a giant brookie just to be disappointed. But a fish is a fish is suppose and like you said, they put up a good fight. Â By the way, this fish was eating good because when I caught it there was a sculpin half way down its throat! (Picture) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Troutbum11 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 wow...those are some awesome fish Jason. The middle one is my favorite but that last female is long... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
netabrookie 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 That is really wild. Your right, it was eating very well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
netabrookie 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 oops, I forgot to mention that the photos that Jason added were great. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
troutguy 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 Nice fish Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bryon Anderson 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 Beautiful fish and great photos. Thanks for sharing! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vicrider 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 I never did up to the Nipigon River but my F-I-L did and brought back pics of 3-4# brookies. They can go huge bug seldom in the streams we love to fish for them. I used to fish a deadwaters on the Hockamin Creek in MN where we'd get a lot of fish to 15", but in the running water above and below the beaver ponds seldom over 10". I was steelhead fishing the Poplar River on the north shore of Lake Superior drifting egg flies and got a "coaster" or lake run brookie that ran about 20". Biggest ever but don't think it weighed much more than the 15" trout in the deadwaters. The stillwater trout were fat from a diet of mainly chubs and scuds. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
singletrack 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2014 This is my personal best and first brookie. Caught up high in a lake in the Sierras near lake Tahoe. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites