Winter trout

[Romo]

I was off Friday and had a few hours to kill in the afternoon so I hit a new trout stream in search of native browns. After 3-4 miles of hiking I found one but wasn't impressed with the stream so went to a stocked lake nearby. Threw a tiny kastmaster into 30mph wind gusts in my face and miraculously connected to a nice fat stocked brown trout. I bailed after that because of the wind. Trout fishing in the winter beats not fishing at all and the stocked browns are tasty. I am planning to take a local wintertime kayaking trip tomorrow for some crappies/perch/bass.

[Romo]

Scrapped the kayaking idea because it was still 30 degrees by 9 am. Went searching for the elusive schuylkill brown trout today and amazingly lost a fat 17-18" fish right at my feet as it thrashed on my 5th or so cast. An hour later I did hit a nicely colored 14 incher. Stopped at a creek that hadn't been stocked since October on my way home and hit a skinny little rainbow. Always nice to catch some fish on cold December days. My original plan was to hit a lake but with light winds the past 36 hours and below freezing temps it was frozen this morning

[AbuMasgouf]

Nice Romo. Trout fishing is my favorite winter pass time with my boys (too young for kayaking).

[jhoss]

Beautiful fish! Nice work