Brook trout bait question

[okie archer]

I'm planning on going to Colorado in June for family camping and fishing. Providing I draw 1st rifle elk I plan on going again in October.
I'm not asking a where to go question but a what to use question. Was thinking about just taking a lightweight crappie rig and hoping to find some streams/creeks.
Spinners, power bait, worms?

 

[reallyoldman]

I'm planning on going to Colorado in June for family camping and fishing. Providing I draw 1st rifle elk I plan on going again in October.
I'm not asking a where to go question but a what to use question. Was thinking about just taking a lightweight crappie rig and hoping to find some streams/creeks.
Spinners, power bait, worms?

ALL you need is a size 10. or 12 hook, BB sized split shot ( in swift or bigger stream you may need to add or lessen), 4# line and any light weight pole with a small reel. A small earth worm or piece of one never fails. Most creeks you can fish with about 6-10' of line. Creel to keep em in. May require you to hike away from trails or roads but nearly every higher stream will have them. Really good eating. Be prepared to loose some tackle.

 

[Treeshark]

Lightweight spinning combo with small Panther Martin spinners will pound them. Color really doesn’t matter, but I like orange, silver and bee patterns.

 

[Gr8bawana]

I like to use either worms or grasshoppers if they are still out in really small creeks and just let them float naturally.

 

[mevertsen]

I like to use either worms or grasshoppers if they are still out in really small creeks and just let them float naturally.

Nice red band

 

[mevertsen]

Small 10 size hook. Drift a piece of worm through rifles into pools.

Or if there is a high bank with a lot of cover, just dangle it straight down through the brush and trees into a hole below.

 

[JohnCushman]

Read the regs on the water you're fishing to see about live or artificial bait requirements

 

[Sheltowee]

You know the little 5'6 guy that never missed a chest and biceps day at the gym, wears a backwards baseball cap and too big t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, and walks into a bar wanting to fight anything that walks? That... is basically the brook trout. They aren't super bright and will hit most things at least once. I was tossing a fly toward a couple in a tiny beaver pond (like, 10 feet across, probably no more than 2 feet deep at its deepest point) last summer and couldn't get the fly to my target fish because his buddies kept trying to eat my tippet knot.

If you're planning on fishing skinny water, I'd pick up a cheap Tenkara rig and a couple of Hippie Stompers, Juan's Hoppers or Chubby Chernobyls in the size 12-14 range, then maybe drop a size 18-22ish midge (Copper John, Zebra Midge, or Perdigon) about a foot below your dry.

 

[jrabq]

In high mountain lakes/ponds I've had good luck with spinning rod throwing small flies under a bubble float. They are usually hungry and not very picky.

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

Turn over some rocks in the creek and find some stone fly nymphs or caddis fly larvae.

 

[406cowboycarpenter]

I'm planning on going to Colorado in June for family camping and fishing. Providing I draw 1st rifle elk I plan on going again in October.
I'm not asking a where to go question but a what to use question. Was thinking about just taking a lightweight crappie rig and hoping to find some streams/creeks.
Spinners, power bait, worms?

I'm planning on going to Colorado in June for family camping and fishing. Providing I draw 1st rifle elk I plan on going again in October.
I'm not asking a where to go question but a what to use question. Was thinking about just taking a lightweight crappie rig and hoping to find some streams/creeks.
Spinners, power bait,

I'm planning on going to Colorado in June for family camping and fishing. Providing I draw 1st rifle elk I plan on going again in October.
I'm not asking a where to go question but a what to use question. Was thinking about just taking a lightweight crappie rig and hoping to find some streams/creeks.
Spinners, power bait, worms?

If you ever try a fly rod they absolutely adore a Yellow Humpy smashes them every time. Worms have always done well on brooks.