Small Creek Brook Trout Fishing tips
It had stormed violently the night before. Thunder, lighting and heavy rain fell for a good hour. I was now kneeling in the long marsh grass along water works creek. The air was fresh, with only the kind off freshness you can get after thunderstorms pass though an area.This creek was very small. It feed into a much larger river that had a good Brook Trout population in it. If you looked at this creek after a dry spell you would think it could hardly support a minnow. But after a heavy rain this little creek was dynamite for Trout fishing. The erosion caused from the very short lived high water would deposit worms and crawlers into the water for the trout to feed on. Then the trout would come up into the small creek from the river to feed. These weren’t small fish either. It was not uncommon to catch Brook Trout in the 14 to 16 inch range.
I stretched my arm out to elevate the rod over the tall grass and fed my line down with the small split shot and crawler into the water. The current from the high water quickly took the slack out of my line. Then the strike! I had my first Brook Trout of the day on. Making my way quietly along the creek I repeated this process till I had my limit.
Fishing small creeks can be a challenge. You have to take your time and move quietly. You also want to leave some distance between you and the water so they don’t see you. Brook Trout will spook very easily.
Another thing that can be very helpful is to use a spin casting real with a long rod. Many times along these small creeks you will be knelling down and trying to feed your line though tall grass and brush. This will help keep your line from getting tangled.
Many of these small feeder creeks exist. You just have to spend the time and find them.
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Trout are a very enjoyable species of fish to spend your time trying to catch. In this article, I’m going to discuss some tips that should help you catch more trout. When I speak of trout, I’m referring to the basic trout species that can be found throughout the United States. These species would include: Rainbow, Brown, Brook, Cutthroat, and Bull Trout.
Yeah I used to fish small creeks for brown trout. Not easy at all. I gave up and now just fish larger streams.
I have never been able to get into fishing streams or fly fishing for that matter, but it sounds as though it can be a relaxing experience. Thanks for the story.
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14-16 inch Brookies eh? That is much much larger than we typically see out in Colorado, an 8-10 incher is probably a big one out here.
Trouts taste awesome!
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Great article, it is always an inspiration to read about someone’s fishing experiences. Fishing is such a relaxing sport, it doesnt matter if your fishing a small brook!
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I’ve never tried fishing in small streams or creeks. Now that I’ve got an idea on how it’s done, I’m going to give it a try.
I love it when conditions are just right for catching double sized brookies.
I live in New Brunswick Canada and we have a lot of brooks that run into larger rivers, some are even salmon rivers and we see some Atlantic salmon in water that doesn’t always cover them up completely.
I have a profession at the college I went to that took me to a spot about an hour from where I live that has some 18 brookies but they are really tough to catch.
The best time of year to catch them is when the summer has been hot and dry and they hang out around those smaller brooks mouths where cooler water and food meet the main river.
Two fly fishing buddies and I headed up to a lake about 3 hours away. We were taking our canoes along with our tents for the weekend.
When we arrived at the lake it was still full of ice at the end but the weather was great, nice and sunny.
We got up the lake to where we thought it would be a great spot to easily get to anywhere we wanted on the lake. We pitched our tents there and did a bit of trout fishing before dark.
That night it storm big time. It was so cool to watch from the comfort of our tents.
There was no wind, just lots of rain, lightening and thunder, all night long.
When there was lightening we could see right across the lake and into the trees on the other side. It was as bright as day light and pitch black again.
I wasn’t sure how that would affect our fishing but pleasantly surprised when we caught brook trout one after the other all day long.
Sounds like a great time. With having to crouch and sneak around the stream, sounds like catching brook trout is as much fishing as it is hunting.