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Trout fishing off the beaten path

Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 12:44 pm
by racerguy00
I took my young boy trout fishing in a small, spring fed stream today. I hadn't fished there since I was a teenager and my great grandparents rented the house at the mouth of the creek. The property was posted after they passed, but recently ownership changed so we were able to go back there.

A lot has changed since then, but the one thing that hasn't is a good population of native brook trout in a stream that is ten feet wide at it's widest. In the deeper holes between boulders it is literally two feet wide. As far as I know it hasn't been fished since I was last there. Catch and release for me so the popluation stays viable, with the exception of some nice one that my son begged me to let him bring home for his grandma to fry up for supper. Lots of good memories and some new ones made too.

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Some had eyes bigger than their stomachs, smallest one I ever remember catching. :D
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Re: Trout fishing off the beaten path

Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 5:09 am
by Junk Yard Dog
:vcool: :vcool: :thumbsup:

Re: Trout fishing off the beaten path

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:44 pm
by Dan4good
sweet pics i took my wife trout fishing for the first time last summer and she caught one rainbow 13 inch and we cooked it up same night so good my favorite fresh fish

Re: Trout fishing off the beaten path

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:20 pm
by desdem12
:vcool: :vcool:

Re: Trout fishing off the beaten path

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:22 pm
by hoshow
Awesome! I am glad you got you got to spend this quality time with your son :thumbsup:

Re: Trout fishing off the beaten path

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:52 pm
by Ironnewt
Dan4good wrote:sweet pics i took my wife trout fishing for the first time last summer and she caught one rainbow 13 inch and we cooked it up same night so good my favorite fresh fish
Most people never have really fresh fish.

Re: Trout fishing off the beaten path

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 8:31 am
by ponycarman
:thumbsup: awesome! Was this fly fishing? I enjoy fishing but I am not very knowledgeable on it other than using a bobber in a lake haha. Would love to learn all the other styles. Looks like some good trout right there.

Re: Trout fishing off the beaten path

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:06 am
by racerguy00
Nope, not fly fishing. We were using standard ultralite tackle, 4 lb test line, very small hooks and minnows. Didnt even have to cast the line because the stream is so small. Just let out about 4 feet of line and plop it into the current where it would drift under rocks and logs.

Re: Trout fishing off the beaten path

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:01 am
by ponycarman
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: that's pretty awesome!