Wild Rainbows in Pennsylvania

[foxfire]

lol!

 

[Brown71]

LOL kray, that's a heck of a pic. Got a good laugh out of that.

Seriously though about the nightcrawler or power bait comment, Ive never used power bait a day in my life. BUT, nightcrawlers can be downright deadly for trout if fished properly. Small pieces, threaded on hooks.

I have caught many, many large browns and some large rainbows too using them. The big browns definitely seem to have more of an appetite for them though. A few of the large fish I posted pics of last fall on here were caught on good ol crawlers.

 

[raftman]

Kray, more importantly, where'd you get that sweet belt?

 

[krayfish2]

On tour from a roadie

 

[pete41]

I tried to use powerbait on the smallmouth lake in back of me just to see what would happen.
Caught a huge catfish on 2nd cast-threw the stuff away.

 

[geebee]

krayfish2 wrote:
Wild bows are quite common here in PA. I attached a pic of me holding an 'average size' wild bow from this summer.

sweet pic, have you lost weight ? ha ha

I believe that if you also look at the PFBC County guide by county you can flag the Class A and a click will tell you the fishery.

OP - were you on the White ? my one fishing regret from living in Boston was not getting the chance to fish up there...

 

[JackM]

Tip your wooly buggers with night crawler pieces to avoid the skunk.

 

[krayfish2]

Leave the styrofoam cup on the bank as a calling card so other anglers know you've already cleaned out that pool

 

[KeithS]

Thought that was Nugent at first.

 

[krayfish2]

Nudge don't fish! Ain't got time. He's busy fillin the freezer with back straps.

Mark,
Saw the "fat" post but chose not to reply to something so ridiculous

 

[raftman]

OP - were you on the White ? my one fishing regret from living in Boston was not getting the chance to fish up there...

geebee - Nah, I didn't get on the White. I fished a lot of brookie streams throughout the greens and landed some wild 'bows on the Lamoille/N. Branch of Lamoille up in North Central Vermont. It's a beautiful area if you ever get a chance to see it.

We also went over to New Hampshire and I fished a lot of brookie water over there. I wrote a post about it on my blog with some photos if interested - http://www.raftmanspath.com/blog/vermont-new-hampshire

I can't wait to get back up there.

 

[geebee]

krayfish2 wrote:
Leave the styrofoam cup on the bank as a calling card so other anglers know you've already cleaned out that pool

actually that's genius - put 2-3 Styrofoam cups on the bank at dusk the night before you want to fish, and everyone will just walk on by it....

I must do that next time I want to make a brookie curry.

thanks for the tip.

Mark.