#1 Brookie bait?

[bicephalic]

What's your go to for these beauties? Flies? spinners?

I've only ever caught the little guys on worms when I was a kid..*shrug* Going to have to give them a serious try this year.

[Hunter300]

For me, a hook and worm is next to impossible to beat. Sometimes when they ask for it, a nice lively stickleback on a bare hook. Spinners have also worked pretty good for me. I should mention that almost all my fish i caught are natural trout in small creeks, some which are crystal clear water and others are tea-stained with a quick flow. Find the pools and eddy's and you will find the fish.

[fishnchips96]

I fish for brookies in a small pond conected to a stream. Trout worms work the best for me but I always catch the larger ones on a pink and black rooster tail spinner, other colours work well when the season gets later.

[intothedeep]

there are alot of options. i have caught them on spinners with orange being the best. i will use other colours and catch brown trout and switch to orange and immediatly catch specs., maybe its just me. also in lakes where they are bigger countdown rapalas in 1.5 ito 2 inch sizes, 1/16th oz jigs tipped with 1-2.5 inch gulp or fin-s fish, anything that looks like a bug or small minnow and of course worms and wax worms on small jigs or hooks. berkley trout bait in a jar(orange colour is good) also works well, got my personal best open water on that stuff.

sorry after all that rant i just re-read your post #1 bait, i guess a panther martin spinner.

[nipigon jack]

Thanks for posting this thread Bicephalic!!
I've been thinking about asking the same question.
I'm heading for Lake Nipigon at the end of May and I want to make sure I have all of my basis covered.
Right now, I'm working on finding someone with stock of Krocodile spoons and Sutton West Rivers

[The.Scottster]

Something not mentioned yet is mini live crayfish (if you can find them)......... Tiny hook and single split shot, watch your line on the drop and look for the sudden twitch. I actually put a trap out in the ponds the night before I go up north and usually get a dozen or so.

This year I picked up a couple sinking mini crayfish crank baits that I am itching to try.

[jipper]

Gold Williams Firefly(double blade) tipped with a garden worm drifted slowly

[bicephalic]

there are alot of options. i have caught them on spinners with orange being the best. i will use other colours and catch brown trout and switch to orange and immediatly catch specs., maybe its just me. also in lakes where they are bigger countdown rapalas in 1.5 ito 2 inch sizes, 1/16th oz jigs tipped with 1-2.5 inch gulp or fin-s fish, anything that looks like a bug or small minnow and of course worms and wax worms on small jigs or hooks. berkley trout bait in a jar(orange colour is good) also works well, got my personal best open water on that stuff.

sorry after all that rant i just re-read your post #1 bait, i guess a panther martin spinner.

Don't apologize, that's a lot of good info!

[johnnyb]

My first brookie was a chunky 16 incher that smashed a rebel wee craw...about 1.5inches long. Since then I've fished for small resident trout in the upper credit, and found that tiny spinners work really well...like Panther Martin 0's and 1's.
From what I've heard and read, spoons, spinners and small cranks are pretty popular in the Spring...

[KonaBoy]

I fish stocked Brookies in a lake, so this advice might not help as much as the others :P I've used Mepps spinners ranging from 0-3 in silver, gold and orange. However, I always tie on a small clump of marabou to the treble hook, and somedays this seems to be the difference maker (compared to others casting just plain spinners). I've also caught quite a few on a small silver and black Rap. If both those fail, I tie on a Woolly Bugger with some split shot about a foot above it