Hey all, 

Sorry for the delay in getting this out.  Work has been kind of crazy lately, and inbetween I've been tying flies, drinkin beer, or obsessing about building a fly rod (but thats another post  ).  

So I got out last week fishing a small brook near my house.  It's nothing big, but boy is it loaded with small brookies!  The water levels were up slightly because of the rain, perfect fishing water.  I started out at about 5:30am, a nice quiet morning.  I decided to hike in a bit further than I had before and was pleasantly rewarded.  I saw fresh evidence of beaver, along with a small dam.  I know somwhere along this brook there must be a nice size beaver pond that I'm sure holds some beautiful healthy brookies in the 8-12" range.  I just have to find it   So anyway I seemed to lose more fish on this trip that the last, but when the fish are 4" long, I guess thats easy to do!  I ultimately landed about 4 nice brookies, and I lost a monster.  Well monster is a relative term.  I cast my royal coachman dry into this nice little run and I never gained sight of where the fly landed.  I pulled up the rod to feel a good amount of resistance, saw a nice spash and he was gone   I'd say he was maybe in the 8-9" class, which is pretty unbelievable for this brook.  I never had another hit from him, but didn't catch another fish in that spot either, which is unusual...he's either keeping the other fish out, or eating them!  I love it, can't wait to get back and try for him again and to find that mystical beaver pond that must be there somewere!  Boy do I love brookie fishing!  

-Nic

 Beautiful looking brook , stream . Nice cover and good looking pools . I envy you folks in New England right now.  Keep the fishing stories and pictures coming . Dave V

Nice story Nic!  I'm glad to see you are getting out still.  I have been squandering time away at the computer and the bench working on my tying. 

Did you always fish streams?  Or is that something you pidked up with Zig?  homestly I never knew fish lived in waters as small as streams and brooks.  I guess I figured they would be eaten by birds or die off when the stream dried up in excessive heat.

But since I never thought to pursue trout growing up I never really thought too much about running water, just still water.

Well good luck to ya on your stream side casting.  I didn't find it very easy!  I caught more trees than anything!  LOL...

Theron

Great photos by the way.  Are you photography nut like Zig and I?  He's a bit more obsessed than I am, but I do enjoy it too.

Awesome report nice fish and beaver pond? HMMM what makes yhou think you would find such a place there LOL? next time we go out there I'll show you a great spot it was up the end i 1st took you . yes i have caught brookies up to 12" in there ... or next time you go bring hip waders or wet wade the stream start where we di and head up stream you will be surprised what you can find. Not to mention this is only one brook i have showed you this is one of the better ones but no the best Can't wait to get out again.

T-bone you did great for a small stream, you hooked some , you also learned a 9' rod is too much, LOL i have been doing this my whole life so it looks easy but it really isn't it will come with time before you now it you'll be yanking these little beautys out yourself.

Just like anything else just gotta get out and do it , now you have some fishing you can do year round even when its hot some of these brook if not most of them are spring fed which keeps the water temp down and allows for this type fishing all season ....

 Stephen,

Thanks for the comment!  You can absoultely borrow the photos.  I have no issues with that at all!  thanks!

-Nic