Fishing Forum

[size 1]In an effort to help each other get on the fish, we will be adding a series of posts entitled by the type of fishing we are targeting and would like all users who wish to include their "favorite way to catch these fish", "favorite spots" (doesn't have to be exact), "favorite guides for these fish", "tackle tips", "recommended tackle", "beginner tips", "boating techniques" or any other information you feel would be helpful to other anglers targeting this type of fish.

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[center][url "http://web.ecomplanet.com/MESS6438/ServerContent/MyCustomImages/MESS6438CustomImage1045919.jpg"][/url][/center][center]Brown Trout [/center] [center](also known as brook torut and speckled trout)[/center] [center]I like to dig up earth worms in my garden and lace them on a #6 hook put just enough split shot to get my bait to the bottom of the river and cast in to a hole.[/center]
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Mike: You might mention to all there is a story about brown trout in "Georges Corner" under Articles. The name of the story is "Brown Trout of the Eastern Sierras." As you know brown trout are imports from long ago. They came from Scotland and of course Germany. They were called Loch Leven at first because they came from Lake no.#11 in Scotland. For more read the story in "Georges Corner".
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OHHHH, you hit a sweet spot here! Browns are my favorite fish! Where I live they are very abundant. Even the smallest streams hold nice big hook-jawed browns. I fish for them using a shiner, or sucker minnow about 3" in length. This bait never fails to bring out the big boys!
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I've heard of the Brown refered to as a Speckled Trout, but not as a Brook Trout. We have a Brook Trout here in Utah that is a completely different fish than the Brown.

Below are identification illustrations of a Brook Trout and a Brown trout that I got from the Utah Wildlife Services pages. I hope they show up. They are from a java app. If they don't, here is the link.

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Click on Species Identification from there.

This is a Brown Trout.



The Browns are found all through the state. In most of the rivers, and a lot of the lakes. The Green River is full of these beautiful fish. Where it is artificial only, I use a #9 jointed Rapala in rainbow or Brown pattern, or a Blue Fox Spin Minnow in the biggest size I can find. Here is a nice Green River Brown caught last December.

[center][/center] Just after ice out, I use 1/8oz. Northland Whistler jigs tipped with a worm cast along shorelines of lakes for some pretty nice sized Browns. Early morning and dusk are prime time! I did very well a couple of years ago in the April full moon at midnight. Six 18" Browns on consecutive casts. Others troll side planers and shallow diving Rapalas along the shorelines for some monster sized Browns. These two are 19" each and from about a month ago.

[center][/center]This is a Brook Trout


The Brooks are mostly confined to the higher lakes in Utah. I fish for them mostly like I would Rainbows. Bubble and a worm along the shorelines. Worm and a marshmallow out deeper. I've heard that they don't go for powerbait like bows do, but I haven't tried it to know. I don't have any pictures of my Brook catches.
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I like to use streamer and bugger patterns and fish rivers and streams. Some of the best that there are , of course, the mighty Green River, and a local one for me, the Seveir River.
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hey there dave, i,m surprized that ya call em speckled trout, cause we have browns brookies, and speckled trout , and rainbows. they look as far as the circles on the brookie, but their colors are a light green with the yeller orange circles.on em. real beautiful. but for as far as i,ve seen, over the years, there arenot too many left other than the brook across from my house.well up north in the small brooks aroound st. johnsbury, joes pond danville up there i know there are. i use to fish em up there alot. good eatin too. isnt it funny how in so many different area,s what types of trout and species there is/ it,s cool though. i,ve seen pictures of yous guys cutthroats and i think they look alot like them. they are not interbred at all they are their own species. here. they are as native to vermont as the old brookie. and been catchin in my brook since i was 8. good tastin as a native brookie too. goin campin and fishin this weekend in back the old truck haha talk to ya monday haha mare[][cool][laugh]
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yeah someone else who agrees with me as far as minnows! hahaha lol. me too love fishin with em. later[][cool][laugh]
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hi curtis, nice fish, your brookies like mine here, and the browns are browns haha for me here, and we have our own speckled trout here. look at my last writin down thru. i guess that,s why i couldn,t figure out what dave was callin a brown a speckled trout for i guess. cause a brown is a brown here. haha that,s funny. the difference. oh and i liked the article wherethe guy mentions of scotland and the german ones. we have the german browns up here/ i,ve caught alot of BIG BROWNS out on lake ontario. and to me they fight as good as a king. and the river i caught em. [][cool]
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