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You have some truly awesome brookie fishing.. Lucky fellow.. Do you eat brookies that large?? Mostly I like the smaller ones for the pan, but then I never took one that nice..

Usually not�the best ones are about 8 inches long...

That is what I thought, but the large ones are really trophies, and very beautiful..

Most of the time I practice "Catch and Release", but then there are those times where the plan is specifically for "Catch and Grease".

I would love a nice meal of those Brookies about now.

Most of the time I practice "Catch and Release", but then there are those times where the plan is specifically for "Catch and Grease".

I would love a nice meal of those Brookies about now.

You can say that again. ^

I like to fish for them from Sept on till deer season, there is quite a bit of brook trout fishing to be had in CT if you know were to look and are willing to walk some, wild fish too. I like my 8' Scott Fly Rod for a 2 weight line, small Hoppers Cricket, wooly buggers , hare's ear nymphs, Adams and a few brassies and copper johns, all in the size 12 to 16 range with some of the dries and nymphs down to 20, 5 to 7 x tippet and 10 foot leaders. I don't keep many for the black Iron skillet, I keep some just once a year, usually mid Oct, its a real treat. Now I have fished for Brookies in Labrador, and those fish are measured in pounds not inches!

I don't remember how long this one was but check it out! My wife caught it in her cousins pond next to their cabin outside Lewistown

DeerTracker

From here I am saying 15 - 16".

Nice fish. From the body shape I would say the pond has plenty of whatever they are using for a food source.

If you will note of the earlier fish had a big head and small body that happens higher up in watershed/elevation as the food supply gets slimmer.

Beautiful fish...

WyoCoyoteHunter: I also enjoy fishing for Brookies.
My favorite small stream set up is a tiny Fenwick 6' #2 weight ultra-light flyrod with an Orvis Flyweight Model reel afixed to it!
Even a 10" Brookie is fun to catch on this rig!
It is a tiny outfit and I can only cast it 35 feet or so but that is more than enough.
Imagine my concern when I hooked a 17" Arctic Grayling on the upper Bighole River near Wisdom, Montana with this set-up a couple years ago.
It was like a water war.
It must have taken me 10 minutes to land that bruiser Grayling.
Great pictures by the way and many happy returns of the day.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Some nice sized Brook Trout there!

This was last weekend in the Cruses Basin Wilderness. Caught a bunch of them this size and released them all

VG & rc, glad to hear you are doing some brookie fishing.. We are out of state for a time visiting.. Been doing some warm water fishing and have a salmon trip line up.. But I am anxious to get home and catch some brookies before hunting season kicks off in Sept.. Keep fishing..

VG, is that Fenwick a newer model rod??? I have the older Fenglass models and really like them.. Have a couple new model rods, but my casting is not that great so I stick with my old stuff.