Snowshoes, Setters and Winter Brook Trout Prospecting

The wife and dogs and I headed out this morning for a much needed stretch of the legs and lungs. We covered about five miles in a beautiful loop through classic New Hampshire hill country. I had been thinking about this brook I’d ran into while hunting grouse last season and wondering if it might hold native brook trout. It flows out of a spring fed pond and was nice and cool even at the end of a hot dry summer. The pond is completely iced over and covered with 2 or 3 feet of snow and I imagine that pond holds some brook trout, although I don’t know for sure. My attempts brought no strikes, but it was nice to scratch the itch to wet a line. I need to return later this spring and fight black flies and perhaps catch a fat brook trout or two. Toni took a couple of pics in between helping me keep the dogs away from my line.

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~ by John McGranaghan on March 5, 2011.