First Brook Trout of the Year

[870BkWht]

Since we dont have a fishing section, I thought this would be appropriate to post here.  A few days ago I ventured into the Monongahelia National Forest with a good friend and hiked up a trailhead and fished the stream that paralleled it.  Its got a good population of brook trout and some were willing.  The weather has been really nice, but not much of the foliage has came out yet.  In a few weeks the ramps will be really starting to pop out above the leaf litter.  A few weeks after that the muggins(morel mushrooms) will be starting.  All of these fish I caught on my 6 foot bamboo fly rod that is made just for these guys.

[WildSpur]

Sweet!  I love mountain streams and brookies on flies.

[ThicketThrasher]

Very Nice!

[merocustomcalls]

Beautiful stream there Ben.  I'm trying to do the exact same thing with the flies I got from you.  Maybe I will be able to get caught up on orders and have time to wet some flies before turkey season starts. 

[Ol'Mossy]

Those Brookies are beautiful, we have an abundance of them around here too

That top one looke like a wild brown trout to me though

[Nick_The_Tinkerer]

Beautiful stream, gorgeous trout...love fishing for trout....and Turkey in the morning and trout in the afternoon makes for a awesome day...

[Hognutz]

There is nothing better than a pan of fresh fried brookies. Throw in a handful of morels and it's a meal fit for a King! Nice job!!

[pogo]

That is beautiful.  Spring is such a wonderful time of year.  Thanks for sharing and making me think of past memories and dream of future ones.

[870BkWht]

glad you liked the pics guys, Ill post more here when I make it back out to fish again.

[Sherrell]

That is sweet!

[tomstopper]

Congrats. They are beautiful fish.

[WildTigerTrout]

I love flyfishing for those little gems here in NC Pennsylvania. I fished the other day in a local C&R wild trout stream and caught 8 native brookies and one wild brown. They are BOTH brookies in the photos. Flyfishing for trout is as much fun as turkey hunting but let's not spread that around!

[rev]

Man I love that, living here in Indiana, not too many trout, My uncle and I would drive to PA to fish Titusville and fish oil creek, Prather, and alot of others streams,  fished many a creek that was C&R and no barbs, If you never fly fished it's alot of fun, thanks for the pictures, My uncle passed away a couple of years ago, haven't had the fly rod out since, so much fun

[PureGold]

Miss those days!!!

[Grant Flaming]

there is absolutely nothing like catching those little brookies! Yet to catch one on my fly rod yet though. I am getting better though!

-Grant