Brookline Res Fishing Report

First Rainbow Trout

I headed out to Brookline Reservoir alone today to see if I could catch a stocked trout. I got there about 8am and fished the shallow western end of the pond the whole time. The sky was partly cloudy and the wind was gusting from the east, enough to disturb the water.

Noticed a pair of dead fish floating in the water (A pickerel and a bluegill) as I was scanning the shallows for any suspending fish. I saw three fingerling bass suspending in the shallows just before the pump house.

I started out with a Bluefox vibrax minnow in a rainbow trout pattern and hooked up with a fingerling bass just slowing reeling it in just off the bottom. I let him go and started working some of my other lures.

Bluefox vibrax Gold size 2 in-line spinner, Rapala husky jerk yellow perch pattern, Yellow Mepps black fury size 3, White Curl tail grub on a 1/8 black jib with a gold spinner attached, and Bomber A crankbait.

While I was fishing all these lures I was actually struggling with the bail of the spinning reel which was failing to close on at least half the casts. Not even a dab of WD40 on the hinges worked. I soldiered on in spite of this.

Just past the pump house as I was fishing the Bomber A, I got a really savage strike but I missed it because there was too much slack in the line. (The fish hit on the pause in my retrieve.)

After that I worked my way back toward the car. I put the gold vibrax spinner back on and just kept fan casting.

I got another vicious hit while working the spinner but failed to hook up with it.

Then on my last cast I hooked up with an 11in rainbow trout! Wow, I now understand why people are so passionate about fishing for this species. For its size it fought really hard.

Now I look forward to fishing again for rainbows perhaps with a fly rod.

• Added By: thorn168 on 04/30/11 06:14 PM
• Location: Brookline Res
• Report Date: 4/30/2011
• # of Hotspots: 1
• # of Photos: 2
• # of Fish Caught: 2
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