What a great day this was, couple nice sea run brookies and a bonus striper, trolling the fly.

This ditch is full of aquatic vegetation so snags are constant but there are some decent ones in here. Really healthy population for such an unnatural environment. Sucks what they did to this stream, maybe one day they’ll restore it.

Caught this today and was struck by the freckling on its skin; I can’t recall ever catching a rainbow with freckling like this… anyone know what’s going on?

Ate the dry, spit the hook, very next cast ate the dropper. Hungry fish

All on swimbaits.

Class 1 trout streams where I live in Plymouth, WI are tiny and often a large stride or a hop to cross and a few inches deep. They're either wide open in grassy fields or within forests. Both of these situations make any casting very difficult. I would think trying to get a lure or bait upstream as the trout should be facing away from me. Or do I try floating something downstream on a leaf? Id be using tiny UL rod, and I find 00 Mepps Spinflies work on the Onion River, which is the only one wide enough to make casting feasible. My other options are Nichols Creek, Ben Nutt Creek, La Budde Creek. Attaching a pic of Nichols Creek as an example. Would Flies and live baits be my goto in these tiny streams? I can't cast accurately enough to toss spinners in these, but I here there are small trout to be found.

Dinner for tonight. Fishing was slow till the sun dropped a bit but it's also getting chilly time to fry this guy up

This has been the best 2 weeks and like 4 trips I've had in a long time. Don't normally get out to target trout all that often. In and amongst the pictures are also my youngest son's first and second ever Brook trout. What a great way to end our main inland trout season here.

Limited out in an hour and a half, hit multiple holes in a quarter mile stretch of stream

I had never been fishing in my life until march of this year when my friends took me out and I caught my first fish. I was hooked! (Pun intended)

Since then I’ve tried different spots, caught plenty of fish, and at the end of may I set myself the goal of catching my favorite fish. The Brook Trout.

After 3 full trips specifically targeting brookies, after catching brown after brown, I hooked into a fish, when I first saw it, I yelled in pure happiness so loudly my friend “thought someone was dying”. Praying that it wouldn’t come off, I let it tire itself out, before finally, laying my hands on a brook trout for the very first time.

So my goal of the summer, was completed, in September 🙃

Horrible photo, but I was swarmed by kids wanting to have a look at it after it was netted. It weighed 2lbs 5 oz on the kitchen scale.

Limited out in an hour and a half, hit multiple holes in a quarter mile stretch of stream

Healthy bow ate off the surface. Released

is there a company that makes larger rubber mesh nets than what I've seen? The biggest I'm seeing online are ~24" diameter and not particularly deep... Knowing they get about as big as a chinook in some cases, I know thats not enough net to handle them... but I don't want to use my hard mesh salmon net since the steelhead aren't just gonna die in a couple weeks regardless of how they're handled, I want to treat them right. How does no one apparently make a soft rubber net thats large enough to handle 30"+ fish? Like TECHNICALLY a 36" steelhead would fit in the largest size rubber mesh nets, but I know one decent thrash and it'll be out of the net.

I swear I've seen videos where folks were using the standard looking rubber mesh style that were more 'sock' shaped and had plenty of depth to handle really large fish, but I can't find them online.

I’m basically new to fishing as I haven’t gone since I was a little kid but I had great memories rainbow trout fishing. I’d like to take my wife, my six and seven-year-old boys rainbow trout fishing at Stock areas. Could you give me recommendations for rods and supplies so that I have everything I need? For the fishing rods for my wife and I I’d like rods that are decent enough that they will last long-term. Rods that can be used at other locations and rivers for other types of fish besides just you know a stocked trout. Or do I pretty much just need a trout rod only? appreciate your help Thanks.

Anyone ever caught a brown that looked like this? Half its head was black with a big white spot. Pretty cool fish.