Mainstem Brookies

[dcabarle]

I've been catching a lot of brookies on the Mainstem lately. Weird... This is the first year I've ever caught brookies on the Main.



Browns, bows, and brookies all day long, various sizes. What's better than this?

 

[G Lech]

What's better than this?

Not a damn thing!

 

[comparadun]

PA stockies from feeders.

CDun

 

[Alan_B]

Must be from fishing in the pink bikini, you know how Brookies like those bright colors.)

 

[golden beetle]

That's the best pic to NEFF so far this year.

So good, that I'd like you to show me the spot on the main stem where you caught em!

Here's the deal...

You show me the brookies...

I buy you...

A small coffee.

Ask Simms.

Im good for it.

 

[Trout Fever]

i caught a 17 inch brookie south of the robbling bridge

 

[Trout Guy]

That's the best pic to NEFF so far this year.

So good, that I'd like you to show me the spot on the main stem where you caught em!

Here's the deal...

You show me the brookies...

I buy you...

A small coffee.

Ask Simms.

Im good for it.

I agree, its a very nice fish!

 

[CTobias]

So is it for sure a pellet eater?

 

[Trout Fever]

dennis does not fish that far south hes at the closest 15 to 20 miles northof the lackawaxen

 

[gadfly]

Surely some of the tribs have wild brookies. Couldnt it be from one of them?

 

[flyI4]

that brookie is a wild fish, I've caught the stockie wash downs and they don't look like that, they look more like a lake trout than a brook trout. Nice fish Denis

 

[flyI4]

I've been hearing a lot of people who got into brookies this year down there.....always a nice surprise on the delaware

 

[golden beetle]

that brookie is a wild fish, I've caught the stockie wash downs and they don't look like that, they look more like a lake trout than a brook trout. Nice fish Denis

Does that rhyme with penis?

 

[flyI4]

thats great, I'm not changing it

 

[CR]

Someone I was fishing with pulled one out by Long Eddie a few years ago. It was easily 17 inches.

 

[Broadheadscreek]

Pretty fish DC ! Got one this past weekend on the EB a first for me was about 14 inches don't often see them there either.

 

[tompg]

I used to catch wild brookies on the EB by the steal bridge. Never anything bigger than 8-9 inches though. Nice fish. With more cold water, who know what we'll find where.

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Brrokies frequently use large river systems like the upper Delaware to move between tributaries which are cold enough for them year round. It is one of the keys to their interbreeding of populations in different tribs which strengthens the gene pool. I know my counterpart that runs TU's Upper Connecticut Home Rivers Initiative sees this behavior on that river system all the time. I see it myself even on smaller rivers like the Musky where natives hang nearer to their year round coldwater tribs and retreat back and forth into those tribs depending on temps and breeding season.

 

[AKSkim]

That's the best pic to NEFF so far this year. YOU NEED TO BEAK SUCTION FROM CARLBE'S ASS

So good, that I'd like you to show me the spot on the main stem where you caught em!

Here's the deal...

You show me the brookies...

I buy you...

A small coffee.

Ask Simms.

Im good for it.

You are just good for nothing.. a hand out.

 

[Future Fanatic]

YOU NEED TO BEAK SUCTION FROM CARLBE'S ASS

And reapply that suction to where it was a few months ago?

This display is worse than when teenagers break up...

 

[CTobias]

I was going to say..the colors on that fish are far to vibrant for it to be a stocker....I wish I was home to get in on the action! I would crap my pants if I pulled a brookie that big from a stream in the Smokies. Granted, they have more food and room to grow on the Delaware.