Brook Trout

[Rich M]

Little Cleo spoon in silver or gold.

Rapala CD03 or CD05.

A pack of mealworms from a bait shop - a casting bubble, and some smallish hooks - you can use the casting bubble for flies too.

For flies I always like the royal coachman, black wooly bugger, and gold ribbed hairs ear.

Or you can toss a red wiggler or night crawler section out under a spinner.

Brookies are great & beautiful fish. Smart - not so much. I've caught a couple to 15" - unknown backwoods beaver ponds hold the best fishing. They'll come out from under the logs and fight over a Mepps #0 in tarnished silver.

 

[Muley Buck]

1/16 oz. and 1/8oz. Little Cleos are great for trout, brookies included. They fish well in a wide variety of situations and types of water. My favorite is the red/gold.

 

[Jimmy]

I like the Luhr Jensen Super Duper in gold color, but like others have said Panther Martin in yellow/black and black/yellow all work well.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

I like the Luhr Jensen Super Duper in gold color, but like others have said Panther Martin in yellow/black and black/yellow all work well.

I don't know about brook but we've slayed the rainbows in some places where they wouldn't touch anything else save for a Super Duper.

 

[SnapT]

I've had great success in some northern Ontario lakes for brookies with small EGB spoons and small plugs . The gold and red EGB's were killer .

 

[Muley Buck]

Here's some little guys from a special place in California. If I remember right the male was 19".

 

[cnelk]

Yum. High mtn brookies.

 

[Drummond]

Small Rapala countdowns can be money.

 

[ClearCreek]

One afternoon in early August a number of years ago, I was hiking back to my vehicle after completing some work on a alpine lake. The trail came close to a small pond that was just a wide spot in a small stream and since I had some extra time I thought I would cast a lure to see what I could catch.

After several casts I had caught and released 5 brook trout. I decided to work my way around the pond to see how many brook trout I could catch.

When I got back to the point I had started, I had fished 59 minutes and had caught and released 50 brook trout. I was using a number one Panther Martin with a red blade and yellow body. They were not big, the biggest was probably 12 inches. But, they were fun to catch.


ClearCreek

 

[Phaseolus]

I love Brooke Char, the non trout-trout.

 

[manitou1]

We have good luck in WY with Royal coachman and hoppers in late summer. Kids always tore them up with worms and a float. Up high, there isn' t a lot they won't eat.

 

[Wrench]

I catch a lit of brookies. A muddler or Wooley bugger will never fail. If not fly fishing with a sink tip, id go casting bubble and a muddler and never look back. You can cast that combo a LONG way.