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ursus21
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posted September 15, 2014 06:45 AM
I absolutely love fall colors. Especially in the colors on brook trout as they begin to spawn. If there is a prettier trout I don't know what it is. Besides, I think you boys need something other than politics to talk about. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Nothing like an ultra light rod/reel and a lit up brookie to cheer up one's attitude.
I don't know what it is about a Panther Martin that trout like or hate, but either way I'm sure glad they hit it.
The fishing required a little bit of a walk and once on the creek it wasn't the easiest fishing in the world. It was quite brushy and the creek it's self is super rocky. Every darn one of those rocks was covered in moss and slicker than snot. I spent more time trying to stay vertical that I did fishing. Thankfully I never took any really hard falls. While it was a little tricky to fish it was worth it.
I made my way back up out of the canyon and back to my pick up shortly before dark. It was a great afternoon, and this sunset was a perfect gift to end the day with.
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Leonard
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posted September 15, 2014 07:42 AM
You're living a good life, Troy. Thanks for sharing.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Kokopelli
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posted September 15, 2014 09:27 AM
Brookies are a fine looking fish, no doubt.
But for `prettiest` I think that I would give the nod to Apache Trout. Beautiful golden colored critters.
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Leonard
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posted September 15, 2014 09:47 AM
Perhaps, but have you ever seen a Dorado, (Mahi Mahi) reeled in? The flashes of orange, electric yellow and blue have to be one of the most amazing displays you will ever see, in a game fish. They are obviously angry. Not only that, but they are leapers, like a Mako. Totally fun to catch, and great table fare.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: and, you can't really say that about most trout; they are not the tastiest fish, I'll take a bass any day.
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Moe
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posted September 15, 2014 09:48 AM
Being a char rather than a trout means they are one of the best tasting fishes as well. Both in Oregon and Washington brookies were stocked many years ago but now hey want them gone. Same thing up in British Columbia. They like hugging the bottom so many trout guys who troll never see one and the fish tend to get big. Really big. On our yearly fishing/camping trip to Timothy Lake up on Mt Hood I'll target brookies just to catch one for a dinner. Most time just one is enough to feed 4 people. And they're gorgeous fish. I like to use a size 10 muddler on a full sink line. Kinda universal here in the northwest.
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Okanagan
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posted September 17, 2014 10:59 PM
Gorgeous brookies! They color up in time with our moose season and there is a nameless lake in BC where we used to stop and catch some for lunch.
Re taste and table fare: there is a HUGE range of good to poor taste even within one species of trout, like rainbow or brookies (OK, a char). It depends on what they have been eating plus genetics of the particular fish in a body of water plus water quality. I don't care for the soft white meated rainbows but we catch some firm rainbows as orangey red as a salmon and approaching good salmon for flavor and texture.
Ditto for char and cutthroats, etc. A cold clear lake with good trout genetics and freshwater shrimp for the fish to eat makes for firm salmon colored meat and some fine eating.
Stocked fish eating Purina (?) fish food in a warm pond have pasty white meat that tastes so poor that I'll pass on eating it.
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Paul Melching
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posted September 18, 2014 02:21 AM
Agreed nothing like a Brookie , leaving the popular lakes of the Eastern Sierra and hiking to some remote Alpine lakes fishing for Brookies are some great memories. Great solitude , Fun fishing and good eating!
You could fish all day and see not one person.
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Leonard
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posted September 18, 2014 07:31 AM
That's the interesting thing about Lake Crowley. It's a wide spot on the Owens River that receives a half a million fingerlings every fall. Also several other varieties of rainbows, including the Alpers. But the main variety has an orange flesh almost exactly the same as the farm raised Atlantic Salmon you see in Costco. In coloration, (at least to my eye) these fish are rather silvery and look a lot like a Steelhead. I'm far from a fish geneticist, but it seems the only place I have seen these silver fish with orange flesh is Lake Crowley. If I'm wrong, I hope someone will enlighten me? They also have Browns and Sacramento Perch, it's a damned United Nations Lake. Might even be a few Brook Trout as they have them in other lakes in the Sierra's?
And, by the way, koko mentioned an Apache trout. I don't know what that is but I have fished some impounds east of Mormon Lake where they have a rather striking looking land locked salmon, I think it's a kokono or something like that? Just a guess, is this what he is calling an Apache trout?
No denying, Troy's Brown's are beautiful!
Good hunting. El Bee
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Paul Melching
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posted September 18, 2014 07:43 AM
It's Kokanee it think land locked salmon is see above Bridgeport . Lots of them.
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