Native Brook Trout
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As a kid, growing up in PA, it was the only fish available in our local creeks within bike distance. It was a special time in the fall when the stocked browns would ascend these little creeks. Can't imagine being tired of catching wild, native, brookies, in favor of pellet fed browns. Live and learn.
Brook trout are beautiful. I fish for them on the East fork of the B river and smaller tributaries of it. Also RC drainage. A lake in W MT. has a large population of them. While not native, introduced in late 1800's, they are fun to catch.
I have fished for them in the Appalachians when I lived in the South.
Fun times...
I have fished for them in the Appalachians when I lived in the South.
Fun times...
Brook trout in their fall spawning splendor have long been a passion for many of us.
Here in Pend Oreille County an attempt is being made to eliminate brookies which have compromised East Slope Cutthroat habitant. To that end they have announced a plan to poison them out of one creek that was historically ESC territory. I know little about this other than the announcement but it strikes me as strange as the creek flows into the Pend Oreille River and the POR has every fish imaginable in it. The POR is the second largest river in Washington and as it flows into Canada it is a series of relatively slow moving impoundments with a number of small streams contributing to it along the way. It is unclear how they can poison one of these tribs and make it stick, trout will always find the cooler water with spawning gravel and take up residence.
I await more information on this, wondering if it is just another "wet dream" on the part of fish managers or if they can possibly eradicate all brookies from the drainage and replace them with ESC. It seems like it could only be a temporary fix at best as the river contains brookies, rainbows, brown trout and others. Freestone and I fish another little creek that flows into the Pend Oreille and up high in that drainage we have caught 4 species of trout on several occasions.
Here in Pend Oreille County an attempt is being made to eliminate brookies which have compromised East Slope Cutthroat habitant. To that end they have announced a plan to poison them out of one creek that was historically ESC territory. I know little about this other than the announcement but it strikes me as strange as the creek flows into the Pend Oreille River and the POR has every fish imaginable in it. The POR is the second largest river in Washington and as it flows into Canada it is a series of relatively slow moving impoundments with a number of small streams contributing to it along the way. It is unclear how they can poison one of these tribs and make it stick, trout will always find the cooler water with spawning gravel and take up residence.
I await more information on this, wondering if it is just another "wet dream" on the part of fish managers or if they can possibly eradicate all brookies from the drainage and replace them with ESC. It seems like it could only be a temporary fix at best as the river contains brookies, rainbows, brown trout and others. Freestone and I fish another little creek that flows into the Pend Oreille and up high in that drainage we have caught 4 species of trout on several occasions.
If only we didn’t do permanent damage to our ecosystem already, rainbows would still just be west coast and brookies in the east. Massachusetts just keeps stocking and stocking those non natives for the power bait folks, so the future is kind of bleak for the native brookies.
Starting when I was about 8 or 9 years old I made my summers fly by much too quickly on a number of tiny brooks, as we called them, in central Vermont, fishing for the only kind of trout that I then knew existed. Now more than 60 years later and having fished for all fish called trout from New Zealand to Russia, Canada to Norway and all over the states when I think of trout fishing the first thing that comes to mind is crawling on my hands and knees through the stream side thickets to flip a worm next to an undercut bank, excited because I knew exactly what was about to happen.
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I was fortunate enough to watch the brookies spawn in the small tributaries. It is amazing, too...
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Have a fondness for the page boys of the hills. Some of the brookies I encountered in alpine lakes last summer came from beautiful places...
