#1 Brookie bait?

[Garfisher]

around 80% of the few brookies ive caught (including my pb) came on a berkley powerbait trout. the rest have come on a fly called the "spuddler" in size 12. i hope to find a population close to my home, every brook trout i have caught have been in nova scotia

12", not bad for a very slow moving, shallow (average depth of around 2.5') stream that at its widest is around 20'

[impossible]

if youre fishing a lake, a panther martin tipped with a worm would be good. Also, i, a muddler minnow fly seems to be best for flyfishing, dont know if you can rig it up on spinning gear.

for a river, worms are hands down the best. brook trout arent picky, the trouble is finding them.

good luck

[FishingMonkey]

I've caught two brook trout in my life and both have been *really* small. And by that I mean 3" and 4". I caught one on a tiny beetle spin and the other on a #0 size silver Aglia spinner. They were from the pond here in town and both were caught during early fall, just before the season closed.

[beatty brown]

alot of times when chubs are over powering I use the tip of a chub tail.chub won't bite and the speks love the tail,great for brown to

[mattdbz29]

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

caught alot of specks on that rig!! bigger lake specs love it with 8-10 inchs of line. ive still got a bunch of the old ones with red beads , the new ones just arent the same!

[Ranger]

alot of times when chubs are over powering I use the tip of a chub tail.chub won't bite and the speks love the tail,great for brown to

X2 on the chubtail, I use my worms to catch the chub. Best Brookie bait goin, when they hit they dont let go.

[Brampton Mike]

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.

without a doubt WORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BIG MAC]

Guys a tactic I have been using ( caught a lot of fish ) is taking a Panther Martin, take the treble off and replace with a good small single hook, add a small chunk of worm and I fish the fast water with them, 90% of the time you will get a bite in the first 20 seconds or so ( they are pretty aggresive fish, ) I have tried the bare panther martin and not near the success, the odd time I will try just a worm and a small split shot but find I catch away to many chubs in the slow water, the specks have to be aggressive to get the food coming downstream so seem to sit in the faster water....have cleaned them and found little orange pebbles in there stomach. For big lake specks ( my son and I have caught our PB ) in the 3 lb range , we used EGB"S, this was in Algonquin Park, have caught smaller ones using a spinner with a worm on it... have my speck creek all picked out and ready to go for 6:00 am saturday and leave for the park next Wed. can't wait, out catching worms last night...lucky if I am getting 3 hours sleep a night right now,,,this will be roughly my 45th opener in a row...

[bowj]

sweet thread. I was gonna start one like this as I am going out for my first brookie targetting adventure this weekend. a stream not far from here so if we get into them it will be a great location for me. I think worms and PM and mepps spinners will be my go to. we'll see how it goes.

[bicephalic]

Great info! Love how these threads develop into novels of technique.
My dad went out with some guys last weekend (brookies are open there), and he was the only one converting his hits...was using small commercially bought fly's (didnt see so can't comment on pattern)about 3' downstream from a float, and would skate them upstream and let them fall...fish on...repeat. Can't imagine the guys using their light trout tackle appreciated his bass rod/spincast setup with 12lb fluoro. LOL.