While it may be cold, you got to love what Mother Nature gives you some days. Blue skies, bright sun, time with Nicole, and beautiful fish.
January 8, 2011 at 7:43 pm
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Brook Trout 01-08-2011
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January 8, 2011 at 8:00 pm #924144NW corner, eh?
January 8, 2011 at 8:26 pm #924149Quote:
NW corner, eh?
Were you spying on me?.?.
January 8, 2011 at 11:46 pm #924179Very nice. What is the white fin like thing on the fish?
January 8, 2011 at 11:48 pm #924181Not sure what that is. Just part of the fin I suppose.
January 9, 2011 at 12:51 am #924200very cool
January 9, 2011 at 1:26 am #924209Quote:
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NW corner, eh?
Were you spying on me?.?.
I meant to see NE corner. They sure are pretty fish regardless of which corner they come from. 5 or 6 years ago they put some real honkers in there and they kept people busy all winter. Try one at about 6 pounds.
January 9, 2011 at 1:44 am #9242126# WOW. Sign me up for that. That’s a tank of a Brookie. I would love to see one of those coming through an ice hole.
January 9, 2011 at 3:52 am #924242Awesome!~!!!!!
January 9, 2011 at 12:21 pm #924273NICE!! Congratulations on a fun day on the ice. Brookies are great fish. The white line on the fins is found on mature Brook Trout, males especially show the brilliant colors and markings in the fall/early winter because they spawn then. FYI Brook Trout are not really trout they are actually Char and the only native salmonid found in SE MN pre-European settlement.
If you don’t mind would you share what were you using as far as a method goes, deadstick, jigging, live bait, artificials, etc.? If you prefer please PM me.
January 9, 2011 at 1:39 pm #924284Quote:
The white line on the fins is found on mature Brook Trout, males especially show the brilliant colors and markings in the fall/early winter because they spawn then. FYI Brook Trout are not really trout they are actually Char and the only native salmonid found in SE MN pre-European settlement.
What you are holding is a male. The hen fish are duller in coloration but still pretty fish.
Another thing that the char family of fish need is cold, clean water. In the wild around here you may find some brookies near headwaters of small rills if that point is in deeply shaded hill country and generally emanating from a deep spring.
They prefer not having direct light on them. They become easier to catch under the ice at times, but the two low light periods of each day will offer a better chance of catching them if they are in a water in any numbers. During the brightest part of the day these fish like to sink back into the deepest water and sulk but if weeds are present they will lay in the shadows of them and will pick up a tidbit every now and again.
The NW corner Mark…..be there just before dawn.
January 9, 2011 at 5:10 pm #924342Quote:
NICE!! Congratulations on a fun day on the ice. Brookies are great fish. The white line on the fins is found on mature Brook Trout, males especially show the brilliant colors and markings in the fall/early winter because they spawn then. FYI Brook Trout are not really trout they are actually Char and the only native salmonid found in SE MN pre-European settlement.
If you don’t mind would you share what were you using as far as a method goes, deadstick, jigging, live bait, artificials, etc.? If you prefer please PM me.
I can confirm that. He left proof of his gender all over the side of my fish house.
KingFisher, shoot me a call.
January 9, 2011 at 5:36 pm #924345We found a lot of small Brookies this AM along with a couple decent eaters Bows.
January 9, 2011 at 10:41 pm #924426Gee….was the sun out? lol
The bows are nice fish as a rule. If you want to see some red meat, do one of those brookies.
Have you seen any browns yet? The DNR doesn’t find many of them to put in but they will occasionally. Browns were another fish that got their brood ponds cleaned late in the winter one year, the Peterson hatchery I think, and the chuckers were put in the lake. They sure opened some eyes when they hit. They really weren’t much to look at or chew on but they sure did offer some line peeling runs for those who had line that would hold up to their strength. I saw one that was about 8 pounds one morning, but the largest I got was around the 4 pound mark. Rumors of much larger fish were common and in speaking with the driver of the stocking truck later that winter he confirmed some very large vbrowns had been planted and also related that some very sizeable brookies had hit the water when they went in too.
If I am not mistaken the DNR is under contract to stock x number of pounds of trout per year split between the ice and open water seasons and I think the average fish is somewhere beteween 2 and 4 to a pound. Once they hit that lake with all the peripheral food in it they grow like crazy.
January 9, 2011 at 11:04 pm #924439Now that is the kind of talk I like to hear. That would be a blast setting the hook on a fish that would rip line off like that. I haven’t seen a brown yet. I will though, I intend on putting in a lot of hours out there looking for some bigger fish.
Thankfully I’ve had some experience with the Browns on Michigan. Now that’s a fight on an ice rod.
January 9, 2011 at 11:20 pm #924449Quote:
Thankfully I’ve had some experience with the Browns on Michigan. Now that’s a fight on an ice rod.
I will never forget the look you gave mr when that Whoopinstick’s tip toushed the butt of the rod and that Brown was just peelin’ line like it was his job.
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