Trout fishing off the beaten path
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 12:44 pm
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.

Some had eyes bigger than their stomachs, smallest one I ever remember catching.

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.

Some had eyes bigger than their stomachs, smallest one I ever remember catching.
