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I haven't been out fishing till this morning, and went to a little creek close to home. Fishing was OK, but not good. Would have been good if I had hit all my strikes, but I went full retard today... But a 15 inch brookie got his picture taken
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Nice one.
I was just wondering the other day why you had not been posting trout Pics and especially brookies.
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Just started fishing yesterday Louis! I don't like fishing in the high spring run off then hot weather hits, and Im pretty delicate in my old age ( aka comfort-oriented) So I will start piddling around with fishing and ramp it up as the month progresses. September is prime time....
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good brookie
keeping any for dinner?
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Not this time around...whenever I take my wife we have to kill a few brookies...
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very nice brookie. Should be great looking the end of Sept.
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Yep. Our spawn here is in mid-september, and we plan on hitting them hard Spawning colors from previous septembers....
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stunning. our season was extended to the end of October this year, hopefully I can find the brookies.
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Our F&G are actively trying to get rid of them here, by almost any means possible....non-native invasive species...which is .gov speak for "we can't make any money growing them in our hatcheries..." They are my faves, the top one in the one pic was 16 inches... Heres a 17 incher... And an 18 incher.. We used to get them routinely that were 14 inches, a a few bigger each day...not so much now... But we are getting more and bigger cutthroats....
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Awesome fish there!!! Brookies are my favorite fish.. But we never get any THAT size!!!! My stepdaughter got a 16" out of a lake in the mts. I would love to catch one that size in a stream.. Great photos..
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Nice! Those September brookies are incredible. Hard to be a day on the stream catching fish like that. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
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Update: tried a new creek today...caught a few...colors are sharpening up... But the prize for the day was finding a pocket of fluvial grayling.....very rare in the lower 48....
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The Big Hole drainage has the only remaining native grayling pops in the lower 48...... I catch quite a few near Wisdom.
Grayling are a treat for sure anywhere outside of the far north.
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Yeah...these were cool and I wasn't expecting to see them there...I kept having blue fish rush the lure and refuse it...I figured they were rainbows, till one gave me a good look at his profile...GRAYLING! And I was in a tributary of the Big Hole which shall remain nameless....
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You'e found a gem no doubt, if you're into catching relatively rare fish.
I've got several high mountain lakes on the ID/MT border that I grew up riding into and fishing that have stocked grayling (and goldens for that matter) but catching them in moving water where nobody knows anything about them is a real treat!
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Yeah, Ive caught the piss out of them in Hyalite above Bozeman, and Grebe lake in YNP...
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Been catching a mess of those green trout here too ! Bit bigger up here. Veddy tasty too !
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