Originally Posted by
Blackpowdersmoke
Ditto on the Native Brookies Muley. I used to love it back in my younger years when My buddy and I used to camp along some of Pa.'s remote mountain streams and fish for Brookies. I can still taste the fresh caught Brook trout along with some wild leeks and spuds pan fried in butter. Life was so much simpler back then it d@mn near brings a tear to one's eye thinkin' about it. The problem I have anymore is that I find the little buggers too darn pretty to kill one!
BPS
I'm kind of a die hard old school fly fisherman. I use a bamboo rod and silk line. I only use flies tied with natural materials. I also only use dry flies. Not a snob, it just the way I love to do it.
I'm 99.9% catch and release, but I do make an exception with brookies now and then. The reason is to help out the DOW keep the creeks cleaned out of all the brookies Our native fish is the Greenback Cutthroat, and they starve when so many brookies are grabbing all the food.
So, I see no sense in killing the brookies. I just fill up on them. I don't really like to eat fish. I'm more of a meat eater, but I do make exception for fresh brook trout. (char)