What A Beautiful Brook Trout!

Flyfishing for brook trout is one of the greatest pleasures you will have in this life. Flyfishing for brook trout will be one of the most frustrating outing you will have. Both of these statements can be true.

First if you are flyfishing for brook trout that would put you in some amazing scenery. Secondly the water that you are wading, fishing for brookies would be the cleanest and coolest in your area.

Having a dry fly drift perfectly to where a prized brook trout is feeding, then Mr Brookie sucks in the fly and the fight that ensues. Tarring  up and down the stream, just awesome! Whether  the fight ends with the fish breaking off or you releasing the prize fish to fight another day doesn’t really matter.

What matters is the enjoyment you just received from this beautifully colored trout. Now don’t get me wrong they are totally delicious in the pan also. I’ve eaten my share of brook trout over the years.

There’s very few things  more frustrating  then having a trophy trout feeding in front of you and you cant match what he’s feeding on. But maybe more frustrating is when you’ve been catching brookies on a certain fly pattern all day.

You see this gigantic brook trout, the biggest in your lifetime. You go to make that perfect cast with your one and only fly you have left of the pattern  that’s worked fine all day, ends up lost in the maze of trees behind you.

You say how’d that happen, well if you’ve ever fished a bushy brook trout stream I’m sure you know. Now for those that haven’t,  it has something to do with my back cast. You then say just go over and get your fly out of the tree.

That would have been easy if it wasn’t for that big snap I heard. That big snap translates into a fly lodged in a tree that has been broken off the tippet leaving the fly camouflaged amongst 1000’s of leaves.

But you know even with the frustrating things that can happen you still have the pleasure of being in some of the best outdoors that God has created.

Rolland Meigs