Pick one you like the most

Depends on the stream .

In general though my favorite trout fishing is on smaller freestoners. My favorites tend to be Brook/Brown mixes, but I'd take Brookies over Browns if you made me choose.

I really can't pick one over the other, I really like to fish both. If I fished all big water, I'd miss fishing in smaller streams and vice versa.

I prefer to fish freestone streams that are smaller in size. Intimate if you will. I get somewhat of a "lost" feeling on a big stream, as the fish could be anywhere.

I like the small streams because of the total environment. That, and I just don't have a large wild trout stream close by. I'm guessing if I lived near a large wild trout stream I would love those equally.

Both are beautiful but big water is so much.more challenging

As much as I enjoy the small stream setting and everything that goes with it, by the end of just one day, I've had enough of retrieving my fly from the surrounding foilage.

My vote goes to small streams. I just love hiking through the mountains and the beauty of small native brookies. Also the fact that I will never see another soul while fishing.

Yes, but the corollary to this question is what you describe as "small".

I feel too lost on big water.

Big stream is more of a challenge in my opinion. I like the challenge. So my vote is for big streams

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As you'd expect, I'm sure everyone's definition is probably different here. To qualify my earlier response though...what I call small is anything under 20 ft or so in average streambed width, on down to the tiniest trickle you could fish. Streams like Manada, Hammer (above 322), and even Valley would be right around the upper border of what I'd call small and beginning to encroach on medium. That said most of my favorite streams to fish probably run in the 10-15 ft range in terms of average width. Extremely high gradient Brookie streams perhaps being the exception to that rule as they are often even smaller than that, but make frequent large plunge pools due to their gradient.

I enjoy challenging situations as well, but that's why I like Big Spring, etc.

Actually, compared to most of the streams I fish, that stream seems "big" to me.

Night time on big rivers-too dicey on small ones.

Yes, Big Spring, Valley Creek, Letort, Falling Spring, Kish, etc, I'd call medium sized, but if forced to call em small or big, they're all big.

My cutoff is probably around 15 feet across, though to be sure, 15 ft is a large small stream.

And even then it's more about the feel of the place. Small stream means somewhere deep in a woodsy setting to me. On borderline streams, this is probably the determining factor.

Example: Slate Run. By size, it's awfully borderline. It's very big for a small stream. But it has the right feel, and thus gets the nod.