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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: West coast of New England
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This summer has been particularly brutal on brookies and I suspect that one of my longtime favorite ponds lost its population of larger fish. It will be interesting to see what we see this Autumn. Paradoxically, the west has cooled down significantly as a result of all the smoke from the big fires. Friends in Alberta and BC report early and very good fishing!
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#22 |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,308
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I'll put my money on the brook trout for finding a way to get by. They're very capable of dealing with extremes.
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#23 |
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 340
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I am with St. Regis and the brookies as well. Remember that ice out on Mirror Lake was May 4th this past spring. Latest since 1978! Supposed to be cold again this winter. Upper forties in finger lakes overnight already.
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#24 |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,927
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Me brother and I spent a day and night on a back country lake and fished fairly hard, albeit from shore. Lake was like glass half the time, didn't have one follower nor seen a fish rise. Had a great time just the same. It was nice to build a needed fire.
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#25 |
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Join Date: May 2011
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Surface water temps on a number of back country ponds fell from the mid 70s during last weeks heat to near 60 today. Longer cold nights and yesterday's cold rain really pushed them down.
Thermocline is set up between 10 and 20 feet depending on water clarity. Temps are likely to rise again with the return of summer here. |
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#26 |
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 43
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I'm seeing posts on social media of guys catching some nice trout recently. Not all was lost this summer it seems.
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Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 3
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#28 |
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 24
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Just to chime back in, I returned to my top brookie stream for a few hours this past weekend, and the action was great!! This is an example of some that I caught--not the pond monsters some of you pluck, but a beautiful stream brookie nonetheless. Good luck to you all!
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#29 |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,308
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Nice brookie!
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#30 |
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 24
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A few nice browns plucked out today. Keep that rain coming!
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#31 |
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 12
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Those are nice! Congrats
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#32 |
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Posts: 191
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I fished a small shallow brook trout pond Wednesday in the southwestern ADK’s.
Had plenty of action, caught around 15 Brookies but all small and release all but 3. I carried my canoe to the pond but There is a boat stashed there. It tells me the pond does get some pressure. I have fished it before several years ago. This Pond is very shallow with only a couple of deep spots. If ever there was a pond that could be affected by summer warm temps and low water, this is the one. But, it seems to me that the Brookies have survived. |
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#33 |
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 12
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They find a spring and spend the summer there. Boats are normally dragged in by snowmobile in the winter. You can tell pressure by amount of work tins laying around, and foot prints on peat banks.
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#34 |
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 43
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Photo is deceptive but that is an 18-20" ADK Stream Brookie, my personal best.
Caught on a 2-3WT rod with a black cone head woolly bugger. My fishing season was pretty much destroyed by work, but this guy basically salvaged it. |
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Join Date: Nov 2016
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#36 |
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 24
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Sounds like a great fish RipVW. Can't seem to open that link tho... Here's a 24" brown I caught last weekend. On the thin side but it was a nice fight. Gently released on the condition that I can borrow him/her in the future again for another picture.
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