As for the young man and related posts, here are a couple of excerpts from that site:
Flies werent doing it for me in a local brook with the little 4 wt 7 foot fly rod. I decided since I had worms with me to try em on a single hook and I got myself a 15 inch wild brookie smile I really think this is a great way to catch brook trout in a brook when they arent rising or your flies arent working. Anyone else try this out before?
Casting a worm on a fly rod lol no offense kid but that's called giving up. Fly fishing is fishing with a fly and bait fishing is fishing with bait kiddo.
You go and wash your mouth out with soap young man eek
Agggh! Are you hanging that poor fish from the hook??
No offense Kid but fish look better wet and ready to swim away.
Some of us will eat the odd fish and that's ok but to me that picture shows no respect to the fish.
My opinion....... but I would think it is shared here.
NOTE: This post was from "The Kid"
I release alot of fish and treat them properly, I felt this fish was a nice barbecue size and as a maritimer fish is a huge part of my diet. Even you guys couldn't say no to its pink meat on the barbecue with a lemon inside as its cooking.
that picture sickens me.
And please don't post pictures of dead trout. tasteless photo. I say no to killing fish like that every time I am out brookie fishing and something that beautiful is on the end of my line, let alone any other species.
Do you have any idea how old a trout like that would be in a small brook? Any idea how many fish that fish would produce in a single year or perhaps its lifetime?
Though you may have been using a "fly" rod, you were not FLY fishing. You were worm dunking. No skill there. Brookies are about the dumbest trout there is. You should be able to get them on flies, and when not dry, try a nymph.
I get the feeling that harvests like this are a regular thing for this young lad. Lets see how his favorite brook fishes in another 10-15 years.
This particular fishing forum got my blood boiling. This was one of the worst threads, but there were a lot of other really discouraging threads. I searched a number of other sites. There were a lot that weren't a whole lot better.
By the way, I make my own "fly" leaders, terminating in the tippet and hook. My leaders start with 30# or 20# mono, then go to 17# or 12#, and then finalize with 6# or 4# mono before I get to the tippet. I'd forgotten how to tie a "double blood knot." My leaders last for months or years and I only replace the lightest lines or tippets, which are tied with a very simple "surgeon's knot."
