Fly Fishing - Almost broke my ribs yesterday fighting a giant chrome

Steelie · Newbie Joined: Sep 24, 2006 Posts: 81 Location: Erie, PA

I went fishing on a little stream, right by my house, after school yesterday with great results. I was only fishing for around an hour and a half. These were my first trout of the year.

Colt's Foot

The Water

And The Fish

It feels nice to leave this behind and welcome in the warmer weather...

Marcel_Karssies · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject:

Nice fish, they look really good ... that little stream looks fishy to me.
I really love fishing those smaller kind of water.
That first picture of the flower looks somewhat like the stuff
that grows down here early spring.
Does that little stream also contain brook trout ?

Steelie · Newbie Joined: Sep 24, 2006 Posts: 81 Location: Erie, PA

The flowers are immature, soon they will open up more. To my knowledge, they are native to Europe and Asia, and were implanted here(U.S.) because they have medicinal qualities. I looked them up online(I don't know all of this offhand) and they are supposedly used for cough, bronchitis...

The water holds mostly browns with the occasional rainbow or brook. It relies on stocking, unfortunatly, but many of the browns holdover well. The fish in the picture have only been in the stream for around two weeks, but they have quickly developed really nice colors.

Mike

Marcel_Karssies · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:56 am Post subject:

The trout that are in my stream where also recently stocked fish.
It almost seems that the trout quickly adapt their color to the sandy bottom.
Holdover fish are very rare since there are to many meat fisherman around.

My club has its own trout hatchery and in the past they reared their trout from stock fish.
Nowadays they just buy fertilized eggs instead and since they source them from different suppliers brown trout can be of different strains.
The last couple of years they have not stocked rainbows because it was a non-native species but luckily they have abanded that policy.
I like rainbow trout, they grow quicker in the stream and always put up a good fight.

There where also some brook trout in the hatchery but those fish are hard to source in the area where we live and quite expensive to rear.
Last year some of the Brook trout did go in the stream and I was lucky enough to catch two of them of quite respectable size.

Steelie · Newbie Joined: Sep 24, 2006 Posts: 81 Location: Erie, PA

The fish in your post looked really nice as well, and you got some great shots...cool angle on the last pic. There are a few wild trout streams close to me, but the one in the picture is only a mile or so from my house, so I fish it after school or when I don't have much time to fish.