Brown trout

[tjm]

5 hours 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.  

Never saw  his videos, not sure that video even existed at the time (think that was the year PCs were first sold)  and I've never watched any movies he might have stared in either, I read books. no offense to you. Actually in his case only one book. I was stupid enough though to buy into his mono rig nymphing, which didn't really take the world by storm at time, did conquer the world a few years later when Vlad took it to the competitions. I caught a lot of fish that way and didn't have a lot of fun doing it.

I was being a bit facetious, because it used to be widely held that the larger browns fed mainly in the dark, and more often than not only on other fish. And of course like many other fish browns are opportunistic feeders at any time that any food presents itself. I've caught more big bass at might but an awful lot of them are taken days too. Obviously the OP images weren't at night and they did well.

I've never really targeted them nor have I caught many of them, actually the few that I've seen caught were on some kind of bait.  I think maybe the few browns they stock at RRSP or Capps Creek are probably the only places I've even been exposed to them. Oh and the Beaver tailwater, but I never saw any there in the few years I fished it regularly.

You guys carry on.

[snagged in outlet 3]

5 hours ago, tjm said:

Never saw  his videos, not sure that video even existed at the time (think that was the year PCs were first sold)  and I've never watched any movies he might have stared in either, I read books. no offense to you. Actually in his case only one book. I was stupid enough though to buy into his mono rig nymphing, which didn't really take the world by storm at time, did conquer the world a few years later when Vlad took it to the competitions. I caught a lot of fish that way and didn't have a lot of fun doing it.

I was being a bit facetious, because it used to be widely held that the larger browns fed mainly in the dark, and more often than not only on other fish. And of course like many other fish browns are opportunistic feeders at any time that any food presents itself. I've caught more big bass at might but an awful lot of them are taken days too. Obviously the OP images weren't at night and they did well.

I've never really targeted them nor have I caught many of them, actually the few that I've seen caught were on some kind of bait.  I think maybe the few browns they stock at RRSP or Capps Creek are probably the only places I've even been exposed to them. Oh and the Beaver tailwater, but I never saw any there in the few years I fished it regularly.

You guys carry on.

I respect your position and experience.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

This one was a little over 9 pounds caught this past June during the day.  Had another over 6 pounds the same week.  
 

[tjm]

I don't have any Brown Trout experience.

[ColdWaterFshr]

Paul Dallas is a world book encyclopedia of all things Salmo Trutta.  Here he poses with a highland, sabre-tooth Redbreasted brown, a rare species found only in the Black River, county Kerry, IRE.

[snagged in outlet 3]

8 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

 

Paul Dallas is a world book encyclopedia of all things Salmo Trutta.  Here he poses with a highland, sabre-tooth Redbreasted brown, a rare species found only in the Black River, county Kerry, IRE.

 

Now it all makes sense.   

[Skeeter ZX190]

Catching brown trout is fun, but it's nowhere near the challenge of catching a cuttyrainbrown.  

 

https://youtu.be/Y9tlysB1Myg?si=CYpcMazi6I4FBy1X

[ElkHairCaddis]

What are you guys using to catch browns? I haven't targeted them specifically yet, but I bought some big streamers recently to go after them.

[Gavin]

Jumping Joe Humphreys...Meh...I met the guy and he was a total dish rag. If you want a decent brown, be on the water before dawn, fish with something in the 3-5" long range, sneak in, and make your FIRST cast count. Move, after 3 casts, then sneak in again.

[David Unnerstall]

On 8/30/2023 at 7:52 PM, Skeeter ZX190 said:

Catching brown trout is fun, but it's nowhere near the challenge of catching a cuttyrainbrown.  

 

https://youtu.be/Y9tlysB1Myg?si=CYpcMazi6I4FBy1X

Hank Patterson is just what we need around here.