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Chunky guy on a streamer.
Chunky guy on a streamer.
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great color on this big native.
great color on this big native.
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Giant hen brookie.
Giant hen brookie.
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taking a large orange and white.
taking a large orange and white.
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Good colors on this lil fella.
Good colors on this lil fella.
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There was a tiny nick on him where maybe a heron took a stab it him... you can see it below his lateral line.
There was a tiny nick on him where maybe a heron took a stab it him... you can see it below his lateral line.
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About 5 inches and has some of the prettiest coloration for a fish that size.  Out of a U.P. river right next to a city and totally native.
About 5 inches and has some of the prettiest coloration for a fish that size. Out of a U.P. river right next to a city and totally native.
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Big Brook Trout at dusk.
Big Brook Trout at dusk.
Pryal74January 27th, 2012, 3:05 am
Escanaba, MI

Posts: 168
These are my favorite trout to hunt down and toss a fly to. For anyone who has trekked through four miles of two track roads, poplar forests, nasty swamps, beaver dam pools, tag alders or any horrid, taxing, encumbering obstacle... knows exactly what it means to work for your quarry. I love to watch their fall colors flash as they strike a white marabou streamer or smash boldly on an elk hair caddis. These are just a few of my favorite photos of some Brook Trout I landed in 2011.
-James Pryal
Into The Wild Fly Fishing
PaulRobertsJanuary 27th, 2012, 11:24 am
Colorado

Posts: 1776
Sure love those brookies.
OldredbarnJanuary 27th, 2012, 11:46 am
Novi, MI

Posts: 2608
Sure love those brookies.


Paul,

Even though my Calvinist cousins are sure I'm "preterite", I can't tell you how many times I've found myself uttering, "Thank God for Brookies!" :)

Spence
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively

"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Jmd123January 27th, 2012, 11:56 pm
Oscoda, MI

Posts: 2611
Beautiful brookies there, James! They are my favorite fish, fresh water or salt. And yes, they live in the most beautiful streams (and ponds) too. I have two great brookie hotspots where I live now and last year I think I caught more brookies than I may have in my whole life combined! In one spot I can snorkel with them too in the summer - warm water on top, ice cold on the bottom!

I can't wait for trout opener this year! But I'll be content with ice fishing for now - 12 perch so far, three of them keepers! One spot, actually two, have the possibility of rainbow trout as well...

Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
AdirmanJanuary 28th, 2012, 7:20 am
Monticello, NY

Posts: 505
No arguments here; Brookies are the best!!
MotroutJanuary 28th, 2012, 5:24 pm
Posts: 319
Beautiful brookies, thanks for posting!
"I don't know what fly fishing teaches us, but I think it's something we need to know."-John Gierach
http://fishingintheozarks.blogspot.com/
BigTroutJanuary 30th, 2012, 8:43 pm
Posts: 18
Sweet pics! I love them Brookies!
The great charm about fly fishing is that we are always learning; no matter how long we have been at it, we are constantly making some new wrinkle. - Theodore Gordon

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