Brown trout

[Ik314]

Brown trout have always been one of my absolute favorite fish.  I used to randomly catch them if I was lucky while catching mostly rainbow trout.  Over the last year or two, I’ve gotten more serious about learning where to find them and how to make them eat my lure.  With another brown season getting ready to kick off, figured I should share a few of my nicer browns over the last year.  Catch, quick photo, & release.   Thanks for looking!! 

[Ik314]

Oops forgot to share this one, one of my favorites.  

[BilletHead]

              Great fish! Thanks for posting.  Your fishing partner will have a leg up on his peers when he starts fishing. 

[Ik314]

Thanks a lot, and Haha that’s the plan! Hopefully he’s not sick of it by the time he gets his own pole in hand lol 

[Ik314]

PS  none of the above were caught at Taney, but I am thinking about poking around there a little  this fall.  I checked it out recently with a buddy and caught this on one of my first casts of the evening 

[Skeeter ZX190]

I don't know why, but I really prefer to catch brown trout.  That's why I like the Current River.  I'm the same way with bass.  I would rather catch smallmouth.  

[tjm]

I thought brown trout only ate at night? that was my biggest take away from "Trout Tactics" that and using Humphreys'  own brand of flat mono in place of fly line. I've always wondered  if he commissioned Cortland to make that stuff for him or if they paid him to sell it. Never really caught on I guess,  who else used Cobra fly line?

[snagged in outlet 3]

12 hours ago, tjm said:

 

I thought brown trout only ate at night

 

I can show you easily 100 pictures of browns caught during the day.   Most over 20”.   Humphrey is a joke in my opinion.  Videos done on “private” access farmed streams were more than lame.  IMO.  No offense to you.  

[trythisonemv]

28 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I can show you easily 100 pictures of browns caught during the day.   Most over 20”.   Humphrey is a joke in my opinion.  Videos done on “private” access farmed streams were more than lame.  IMO.  No offense to you.  

I have caught dozens of brownsin the day time but the big ones are predatory and usually hunt other fish at night. Most other aggressive response is from territorial aggression. That said everyone has a theory and they are just that.  Most of the big browns I've seen in the day time on streamers have Been around 12 to 2pm...

[Seth]

14 hours ago, tjm said:

I thought brown trout only ate at night? that was my biggest take away from "Trout Tactics" that and using Humphreys'  own brand of flat mono in place of fly line. I've always wondered  if he commissioned Cortland to make that stuff for him or if they paid him to sell it. Never really caught on I guess,  who else used Cobra fly line?

Dad caught this one on Taneycomo this past Saturday shortly after noon. A bit over 23" and 5.32lbs.