Brook trout

***NEW PB/NEW SPECIES ALERT*** (1.5 Followers Special) #catch2026 #catch26 I am stoked and speechless. I apologies for the photo quality but it was past sunset at the time so low light affects photo quality plus fishing was a last minute decision. After a very tough spring and the only thing to land so far being a tank Niagara River smallie on a spoon (out of season which I will not post as a catch) while fishing for trout and walleye, tough week schedule and condition wise. Lost one last week, yet, back again, vengeance has yet again been earned and last minute too. Wild way to start June and end spring season (potentially). 10incher Brook trout on a Size 3 silver BlueFox spinner. For all the showers and mosquitoes plus today’s humidity, for 45 minutes, surprisingly paid off for a near night/dusk fishing. I’ll be graduating this year so this fish is a great one to conclude college year. Hoping summer and fall are fire this year. Otherwise spring had its surprises and sometimes you never know what you’ll land. Slow spring but became a very big surprise.

Headed out for a wild brook trout stream yesterday and was happily suprised. I came to find out that there were not only brook trout but rainbows and browns as well. I was only able to land 2 brookies, and small brown, and a rainbow, but I could tell this stream has a lot of potential. There is so much structure, downed trees and logjams everywhere. 3/4 fish came on a dry, one of the broom trout took a chubby and the other 2 took a blue dun, while the best brook trout of the day came out of the deepest hole and took a rather large streamer. I thought there would be a much bigger fish in there, but maybe not. Much of the creek looks like it was washed out, as there are also a ton of roots exposed, but there were also deep undercuts in very hard to reach places. I was using my 6 1/2 foot 3 wt today instead of my 10 ft, so casting between the trees and roots was extremely difficult, and more often than not I snagged myself before landing a cast in the hole. Definitely a stream I have to comr back too.

Golden shiner, white perch, smallmouth bass and my limit in trout. It's quite the good day for me fishing.

Brook trout(Salvelinus fontinalis)

Caught our limit and was a great weekend of fishing with the family. Fish tasted phenomenal and some beautiful scenery !