Huge Labrador Brook Trout

[flyman451]

comingtoyaaahaaa wrote;

'we have brook trout that big in pennsylvania... in our limestone streams and classic spring creeks"

I've lived in PA for twenty seven years and none of the limestone streams have any brook trout that could even be considered in the same league as any of the fish shown in the video. There is one spring creek that once in awhile gives up a 16" - 17" wild brook trout but any thing else is a fantasy...

[poetlionheart]

Thanks for including the shots of the frying pan. All my fishing fantasy trips include a frying pan! regards, L

[zelly2k9]

is a brook trout the same as an arctic char?

[vintastic319]

nice ive been to labrador fly fishing. i dare say ive been where you are, Jack coopers camps? im also from maine, my dad and grandfather are very good friends of Jack's

[jonnyscores4]

man i want to go fishing there ..... looks like there is ALOT of BIG Brook trout in Labrador................... SICK

[carefulplants]

great vid and great fish! However, that goddamn shitty u2 song needs to go. Why does everyone posting a fly fishing video feel they need to put that in there? :D

[Comingtoyaaahaaa]

we have brook trout that big in pennsylvania... in our limestone streams and classic spring creeks...

[TheCaptainQuinn]

Looks like a lot of fun!

[WaterfrontConsultant]

usta... New York has a pretty short growing season for stream reared trout. It's an energetics equaltion. You will find larger brookies spawning in lake tributary streams in fall, however. We tweak ponds and streams to get larger brookies, but we are still hampered by the length of the growing season. We can get them up to a couple pounds.

[meademan20]

I have caught brookies 11-18 inches in streames in NY an i have 3in half pounders in ponds and lake in NY

[usta4070]

why won't brookies grow bigger than 10-11 inches in new york streams?

[troutangler95]

@usta4070 It's because down there you guys dont have as cold water and the food soucers like the trout up here in canada do. Plus those Trout you see them catching are most likely sea run trout so they grow bigger that normal native trout because of the food sources out there.

[Ethan43211]

@usta4070 because of mexicans.........

[oktroutbum]

cheaper but as good, its the whole experience not just the fish

[Fecious1]

I think that's fine to practice sound "catch & cook" ethics in many cases. Big fish get caught and make room for smaller fish to consume the food which the harvested fish would've consumed. That area lets guests keep one big fish per week to mount and the rest are generally released.

[btwiitchell55]

minipi is prob leased from the native people to an outfitter thats how most those deals go

[fishfinderflyfishing]

if only we had brookies like that around here! damn!

[kanukster]

Now thats how you handle a trout! Like a new born baby! Simply beautyfull

[dannyboy9448]

awesome videos guys love the song i think i was born a hundred yrs 2 late 15 and i love fishing wish i could get up there will sumday tho my biggest brookie is 1 and a half pounds it was native and in rhode island again awesome video and love the song

[buddyboy6738]

I still cant help it, those brookies are huuuge!!

[buddyboy6738]

Only in Canada! Most of those fish are trophies, if i caught some like that in lower north eastern ontario i'd have it mounted in a heartbeat!

[ptman101]

There USED to be brooks like that there... You could catch brookies in most ON streams a mere 50 yrs ago.  ANyway, you can have exact replicas made from a picture & measurements of your fish nowadays - which are far more durable if you want a trophy to gaze at. So you can release those big fish genes back to the pool. It's a darn good idea.

[JSG949]

Holy shit. Brook trout dont get much bigger then that anywheres in the world.

[spinksy1979]

if u want to see some of the really big minipi brook trout, watch hooked with mark krupa. these ones in this vid are average for minipi

[bujwik]

now those are some beautiful fish...nice vid guys

[bobilator1]

U dont dont have to go realy far in the north of canada u only need to go in Mont Vallin there is a huge amount of lake never been fish with a lot of fish in it !!!!

I go there every year

[stefihuntalova]

HO YEAH only in northern canada !

[jsmallwood2007]

Nice Vid

[hiltzter]

Those are some awesome trout ! read a lot about the Minipi, hope to get there some day too.

[grousemaster]

Amazing. Just too bad I'll probably never be able to afford to go and see it for myself. Great post.

[jsmallwood2007]

theres cheeper alternatives...

[grousemaster]

such as.......?

[jsmallwood2007]

drive..theres a highway there now..and northern newfoundland and hike

[troutbum86]

minipi watershed is privatized I believe...and plus it won't take long before the fishing along that highway deteriorates dramatically, with the newfoundland catch and release into the pan ethics.

[jsmallwood2007]

@troutbum86 didnt know there was such a thing as privatized water in NL

[troutbum86]

I did'nt think so either but I did read something online about the outfitters securing the rights to the minipi watershed. As bad as it is that the water is privatized, at least we know the fish stocks will be protected....

[buddyboy6738]

Big ass fish xd lol