Chasing brookies on the fly

[Bucksnbows]

5 minutes ago, JHbowhunter said:

Nice trip and great pics Brian.  Looks like a great place to drift some earth worms! 

Just had to administer CPR to myself. 

[MikeStaten]

Looks like a great time!

[TroutandBucks]

Hell of an awesome trip!! super jealous 

[Gunsmoke]

Great trip.  Good for the soul.

[Bucksnbows]

2 hours ago, TroutandBucks said:

Hell of an awesome trip!! super jealous 

Join me next year. I’ll work on your wife in time to convince her you need to go. 

[rgw]

Looks like an awesome trip, Brent was up there all last week and went up mt Washington and stayed on lake Winnipesaukee, he took my boat up to bass fish but he said the whole area was over run with rock bass and caught hundreds of them, said the girls had fun catching them though 

[OMC]

Brian looks like a great trip ! 

[Nomad]

Am I missing the pan fried trout somewhere?

[Live to Hunt]

Nice Brother 

[Recurve hntr]

Looks like a great trip. Beautiful pics. Thanks for sharing.

[Bucksnbows]

3 hours ago, Nomad said:

Am I missing the pan fried trout somewhere?

We killed two stocked rainbows for the grill. I only caught small but wild ‘bows that weren’t as big as a sardine.  Both of mine were put back along with all my brookies  

[jumpthestring]

Were the brookies stocked or native ? what's the biggest brookie you caught ?

[Bucksnbows]

1 hour ago, jumpthestring said:

Were the brookies stocked or native ? what's the biggest brookie you caught ?

These are wild trout including the small rainbows, but only brookies are native to NH. Biggest wasn’t all that large. Maybe 10”, but these are higher altitude streams with a low biomass of food. I caught tons of 4” to 6” brookies all day long. A few of our crew did catch larger stocked rainbows up to maybe 14”. There are apparently also some browns in the system, but I don’t know if they are stocked or wild. It’s not good brown trout water, but some could do well in some of the deep pools.  I’m fairly sure I raised one large brown on a streamer in one of those big confluence pools where two channels came together. 

[hunterbob1]

When I was 17 living in Vermont the best part of fishing was all the girls skinny dipping boink.

[nb6624]

That looks like a dream come true.  Thanks for sharing.  

This is what I saw at my stream when I got there.