Muscoot Oct 2

[KenH]

Went up to Muscoot do put on a boat tag.
Figured I'd pick up some shiners and go for perch
for 2 hours or so as I got there like 8:30am.
I must be the world's crappiest panfisherman because
I couldn't catch one single perch Yellow or White.
Instead caught 2 little largemouths and one 17 inch Brown.
The colors and body shape of this Brown looked more like a stream fish than the fat silver slobs I'm more use to Plus it had a sklightly forked tail which I
don't see too often.  Released to go put on some more weight.

[biggamee]

Ken,
        That's not such a bad trip.I would have trolled bread and butter..and patroled the lake looking for points to return to with bait..that Brown has a lot of weight to gain to hit any decent weight..maybe he will start feeding on the forage the lake has to offer..

Erik

[KenH]

Thanks Erik, There's definitely forage cause I saw a few sawbelly schools on the surface, Back when I used to fish Muscoot in the 80s there really were very few trout in there as the DEC wasn't stocking it. I don't know how long Muscoot has been getting trout stockings but I suppose there must be some good sized holdovers, Findloing them couyd be a tough task faced with a max 30-32ft reservoir with plenty of weed growth. 

[lionpshark]

Ken I told you to stop putting on the trout colon when you go for panfish Nice catch the tail does seem to be a little forked. does anyone else have any Muscoot trout that look similar to Kens fish.

[Tom]

Ken,
Is it possible that it is a Brook Trout?
Tom

[Tom]

I recently caught a few small Brook trout in a local stream and they do resemble Browns.
Yom

[biggamee]

I think a Brook trout looks more like a Laker..could that be a Brown/Brook cross?..but it looks like a Brown but there's something weird about its head..looks different..possibly a native Brown?..17 inch Browns from Cross River are usaully like little fat footballs

[Biz-R-OWorld]

A brown/brook cross is a Tiger Trout.  That is not a tiger trout. I think it's brown trout from a stream, with the small mouth, etc.

[KenH]

Tom, I don't think it's a brook or a brook hybrid.
It's clearly a Brown but with more stream fish colors than a reservoir brown as Biz says. And I agree with Erik that browns even this size from Cross River are the usual silver fatties.

[johnjav]

Hey ken,

Great pic, thanks for posting it. That is a great looking brown. The colors on it is awesome.

[Trout Stalker]

It looks like the native browns that I have caught in local streams. Doesn't look like a stockie to me Ken. Nice job!

[johnjav]

Ken, did you notice if that brown had lots of red spots besides the black spots? I read somewhere that the native wild browns are more likely to have those additional red spots.

[KenH]

John,
Yes it had much more red spots than the Browns I normally catch.

[AVK]

Nice catch, Ken. Looks much like those I caught and saw in Titicus outlet. Which area did you fish? Was it close to some streams flowing into the reservoir?

[reservoirdog]

Seems like you can get browns, just about anywhere anytime , Nice looking brown ditto looks like a native stream awimmer. anyways great job!!!!!