Your best wild trout in 2024

[wildtrout2]

Here's my best trout this season, which I've posted before. Let's see some of your best wild trout this year.

 

[tjsingle]

I highly doubt I'll top this one this year, but here to hoping 🍻

 

[Andrwhite610]

Got this one on a cold day in February. A quick 30 minute session in the creek behind my work in a borderline urban area in Berks co. It was tucked in a root ball that I had already cast to heading down stream. On the way back up an old lady with a thick Hispanic accent said something like “the fish they are under that tree” I thought yea sure lady but what the hell I’ll give it another try. And boom it wacked the streamer. Kinda funny when I spent many hours and $$ traveling to far away streams. I also rarely fish a streamer. Later in the spring I watched a large palomino weave in and out of the root ball showing now interest in my flies.

 

[bjb27_99]

Late September from a well known Pocono stream.

 

[wildtrout2]

Got this one on a cold day in February. A quick 30 minute session in the creek behind my work in a borderline urban area in Berks co.

Kinda funny when I spent many hours and $$ traveling to far away streams. I also rarely fish a streamer.
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It's ironic you mention this. That brown I posted was caught a mile and a half from where I live, on an unstocked Natural Repo stream. I've traveled hundreds of miles this season and not caught, or even seen it's equal. You just never know.

 

[Mike]

Got this one on a cold day in February. A quick 30 minute session in the creek behind my work in a borderline urban area in Berks co. It was tucked in a root ball that I had already cast to heading down stream. On the way back up an old lady with a thick Hispanic accent said something like “the fish they are under that tree” I thought yea sure lady but what the hell I’ll give it another try. And boom it wacked the streamer. Kinda funny when I spent many hours and $$ traveling to far away streams. I also rarely fish a streamer. Later in the spring I watched a large palomino weave in and out of the root ball showing now interest in my flies.
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Very good one for that creek. A walk along parts of the creek in very late Oct and in Nov may reveal some spawners of equal size. I’ve seen lots of redds in the past when I was on another “mission” that took me there. Note the dorsal indentation on both pics half way between the dorsal fin and head….possibly a healed heron peck or other past substantial injury.

 

[tjsingle]

It's ironic you mention this. That brown I posted was caught a mile and a half from where I live, on an unstocked Natural Repo stream. I've traveled hundreds of miles this season and not caught, or even seen it's equal. You just never know.

It's true. I've caught some big guys close to home. Sometimes I'll drive an hour or 2 to fish, and if the fishings bad, I wonder how the fishing is at some of the local spots.

 

[Andrwhite610]

Very good one for that creek. A walk along parts of the creek in very late Oct and in Nov may reveal some spawners of equal size. I’ve seen lots of redds in the past when I was on another “mission” that took me there. Note the dorsal indentation on both pics half way between the dorsal fin and head….possibly a healed heron peck or other past substantial injury.

Yep it had a little chunk taken out of it. I’ve been watching a pair of average sized wild browns sit in the same spot for about three months now. They even have names haha.

 

[Broodstock]

Best, heck there are still 2.5 months left to try to find out.

Here are a few that are my favorite so far. Best is relative.

1,2 - Wild fish on hoppers in Canada
3 - Nymphed from the most pressured hole on a highly pressured tailwater
4 - on a mouse on the white (there is natural repo there, but they also stock)
5 - snail eating char in Iceland on a F'in windy lake
6 - ancient, ice age, native brown trout in a tiny creek that ran through the farm we stayed on in Iceland - at 11pm when I snuck out while the family was sleeping.
7 - wintertime brown from a wildrepo blue line close to home

 

[wgmiller]

Caught this guy on a small Center County stream back in the spring during the PAFF Jam. I typically don't use techniques and/or fish flies that target large fish (big streamers, fishing at night, etc.), so for me this is one of my best from this year.

 

[Jay_H]

Cold tail water, hot day. Was a great fish.

 

[TerrellBFly]

 

[Nympho]

Took 5 fly changes but finally got it to eat an 18 BWO dry fly.

 

[Nympho]

Another good dry fly fish from the spring.

 

[Nymph-wristed]

It's only October, fellas! Here is a full photoshoot of the best so far in 2024.... 😉

 

[wildtrout2]

It's only October, fellas! Here is a full photoshoot of the best so far in 2024.... 😉

You're the PAFF big trout whisperer! Beautiful fish!

 

[Swattie87]

Hasn’t been a big fish year for me. In part I think because I didn’t fish the big limestoners at all this year. We did our Spring trip this year to Potter/Cameron Co. instead of Central PA. And also in part because I haven’t gone on my Fall trip yet. 😜 Still some memorable fish though.

 

[wildtrout2]

Beautiful native there!

 

[rustbeltwilds]

Heres a few from 2024 some dandys here all wild... and best yet all pa fish fish solo 95% of the time so sorry no smiling mug lol

 

[dudemanspecial]

I don't take a lot of fish pics. In fact, I don't even think about it most of the time. I do take one from time to time just to send to my wife so she doesn't think I am at the strip club.

This is certainly not my best wild fish this year, but its the best picture I could find for now and I want to play too.