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Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208481 08/14/17
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 23,319 Oklahoma OrangeOkie Campfire Ranger
OrangeOkie Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 23,319 Oklahoma	Great pics. Thanks for posting them! "All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee

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Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208484 08/14/17
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 341 Mount Vernon, WA FZY Campfire Member
FZY Campfire Member Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 341 Mount Vernon, WA	Understand the honey holes, nice area will give it a look.

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208490 08/14/17
Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,626 Likes: 18 south of south local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana
local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,626 Likes: 18 south of south	Outstanding pics, ribka. Thanks for sharing. I hope to catch a nice brookie like those some day. Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208509 08/14/17
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 24,330 Likes: 15 PNW R ribka OP Campfire Ranger
OP ribka Campfire Ranger R Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 24,330 Likes: 15 PNW

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208537 08/14/17
Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 18,243 North Central Idaho FieldGrade Campfire Ranger
FieldGrade Campfire Ranger Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 18,243 North Central Idaho	I don't really care about picking Huckle Berries but I know for a fact that Ruff Grouse love them so I too keep my honey holes to myself.

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Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208541 08/14/17
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 28,172 Here Or There luv2safari Campfire Ranger
luv2safari Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 28,172 Here Or There	Originally Posted by ribka Though a different thread would be in order seeing this hunting fishing site Spent a great day away from the chaos and hiked up to a remote mountain lake a friend. Brought the rifle along in case I saw a bear and a fly rod to catch trout. Bonus was all the huckleberries we picked. Saw one bear quite a few elk and grouse and snow shoes hares. Washington state Thanks for the great photos. This rates a Two-Cool Hunt with Class and Classics Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208572 08/14/17
Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 25,122 Likes: 1 South Carolina MadMooner Campfire Ranger
MadMooner Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 25,122 Likes: 1 South Carolina	Good stuff Ribka. Thanks for sharing! Nice looking griff to! “Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208677 08/15/17
Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 17,747 Likes: 2 Michigan, In , Boon S saddlering Campfire Ranger
saddlering Campfire Ranger S Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 17,747 Likes: 2 Michigan, In , Boon	Very nice thread! and pics, this is the stuff the fire used to be about! Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208682 08/15/17
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Proud_Dad Campfire Regular P Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 2,735 Hutchinson, KS	Hard to beat a day like that! Thanks for sharing the pictures. Nice change of pace... "Kids don't remember their best day of television."

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208844 08/15/17
Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 27,091 Colorado Rocky Mountains mtnsnake Campfire Ranger
mtnsnake Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 27,091 Colorado Rocky Mountains	Great pictures, I have to get out a few more time before winter hits.

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Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208856 08/15/17
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 8,235 Likes: 1 PA Teeder Campfire Outfitter
Teeder Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 8,235 Likes: 1 PA	Beautiful! I used to chase brookies years ago. About time I started again!

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208868 08/15/17
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 18,005 Gone To Texas D DocRocket Campfire Ranger
DocRocket Campfire Ranger D Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 18,005 Gone To Texas	Great pics, thanks for sharing! A bunch of F&G dept's were enamored of brookies in the 50's and 60's, I'm told it was a combination of their fast growth rate and their ability to tolerate cold winters with long ice time. So thousands of lakes and ponds on B.C., Alberta, WA, And Idaho got brookies in 'em. I used to hit several honey holes every August on the east slopes of the Rockies for brookies every August. They.tend to breed well in those waters so self-propagation is a given, but the low nutrient levels in mountain lakes don't allow the fish to grow to any size... hence the large heads and slim bodies, and thousands of pan-size fish with no lunkers. They tend to be very willing to take a nymph or wet fly. But I'm in agreement with that last pic, no trout species is more fun to catch then wild cutthroats on a dry fly! Last edited by DocRocket; 08/15/17. Reason: Needed to explain paucity of lunkers "I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208875 08/15/17
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CraigD Campfire Regular C Joined: May 2009 Posts: 1,378 SE Idaho	Great photos! The wife and I went out to look for huckle berries knowing that we were several weeks too late. The bushes had been picked clean, we came home with less than a cup full where we normally pick over a gallon. Next year...

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12208975 08/15/17
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,846 Likes: 8 Craigmont, Idaho M mart Campfire Tracker
mart Campfire Tracker M Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,846 Likes: 8 Craigmont, Idaho	I sure miss Brook Trout. They were the first trout I ever caught as a kid and I'm still as taken with their beauty now as I was back then. Thanks for sharing. Last edited by mart; 08/15/17. Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12209361 08/15/17
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Rooster7 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,739 Likes: 6 Minnesota	Great pics! Thanks for posting The deer hunter does not notice the mountains "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12209439 08/15/17
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,494 Alaska R rost495 Campfire Kahuna
rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,494 Alaska	Cutts on a fly were almost my first experience in yellowstone as a kid. Black wooly booger I won't ever forget. Some of the most fun with dad was crawling down into small creeks in CO and catching small brookies behind each boulder. Thought he would die down there once with chest pains but we made it back up again. I really enjoy brookies to this day. Certainly look forward to char, as they remind me of brookies for some reason. Nice photo essay! We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

Re: berries and brookies rost495 #12212206 08/16/17
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 18,005 Gone To Texas D DocRocket Campfire Ranger
DocRocket Campfire Ranger D Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 18,005 Gone To Texas	Originally Posted by rost495 I really enjoy brookies to this day. Certainly look forward to char, as they remind me of brookies for some reason. Well, they should, Jeff, because brookies ARE char. The genus Salvelinus, the char, has 4 North American species: fonatinalis, alpinis, malmo, and namaycush (respectively, the brook trout, Arctic char, Dolly Varden or bull trout, and lake trout. "I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars

Re: berries and brookies Mittenman #12212729 08/16/17
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Talus_in_Arizona Campfire Tracker T Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,575 AZ	Originally Posted by Mittenman Beautiful fish. There's nothing like a brookie or the wild creeks and rivers that they live in. This. Thus far, even in Alaska, I've caught none more beautiful. More research is planned. I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12212957 08/16/17
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EdM Campfire 'Bwana E Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 33,785 Likes: 9 Either Texas or Idaho	Bumper crop of hucks up here this year. I had a bear in the yard munching them a month or so ago. Looks like a great trip. Conduct is the best proof of character.

Re: berries and brookies ribka #12213167 08/16/17
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Lockhart Campfire Tracker L Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 3,249 NC	Wife and I had our first taste of huckleberries last week around Jackson Lake and Signal Mountain in Grand Teton NP. Fishing the nutrient poor streams of the Appalachian high country I come across those stunted big headed brookies from time to time.

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