| Fishing for native brook trout is a blast. However, a | | | | Tipping your spinner bait is good experimentation. |
| good majority of the time people bait fish for them, | | | | One of the best tactics is to tip the hook with a |
| and they kill or injure these small little gems. Lure | | | | small twisting tail grub. The tail will drive brook trout |
| fishing for them will result in pretty bad injuries if you | | | | crazy, and will impart action to the lure when it is not |
| use treble hooks, but very few lures work without | | | | moving. If you don't want to use plastic, you can |
| at least one treble hook. | | | | always buy the spinner baits blank, and tie some of |
| One of the most incredible lures for small brook trout | | | | your own unique creations. If you do that, pretty |
| are small spinner baits. The single hook on the lure | | | | much any color will work, as long as you don't make |
| prevents serious damage to the fish and allows for | | | | the body too large and inhibit the ability of the fish to |
| quick and easy release. Additionally, the lure is quite | | | | get the hook around its mouth. Tying the lure off in |
| flexible in moving water. You can reel it up through | | | | browns and blacks usually works quite well, as the |
| current and the blade will flicker calling in fish from a | | | | majority of bait fish will be dark colors, as well as the |
| distance, or you can skip it off the bottom, kicking | | | | majority of insect life. |
| up dirt in an attempt to imitate a small bait fish. | | | | |