Brown Trout

here ya go
 
The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is an originally European species of salmonid fish. It includes both purely freshwater populations, referred to Salmo trutta morpha fario and S. trutta morpha lacustris, and anadromous forms known as the sea trout, S. trutta morpha trutta. The latter migrates to the oceans for much of its life and returns to freshwater only to spawn.[2] Sea trout in the UK and Ireland have many regional names, including sewin (Wales), finnock (Scotland), peal (West Country), mort (North West England) and white trout (Ireland).
The specific epithet trutta derives from the Latin trutta, meaning, literally, "trout".
The lacustrine morph of brown trout is most usually potamodromous, migrating from lakes into rivers or streams to spawn, although evidence indicates stocks spawn on wind-swept shorelines of lakes. S. trutta morpha fario forms stream-resident populations, typically in alpine streams, but sometimes in larger rivers. Anadromous and nonanadromous morphs coexisting in the same river evidently can be genetically identical.[3] What determines whether or not they undergo the smolt phase remains unknown.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_trout

slabdaddy
 
you throw in a tributary to lake erie.  sometimes you pull a brown trout out.
 
Hope this helps.

b****1990

Slabdaddy,

Fishing for browns is the same as fishing for steelhead.  Just go to a creek mouth.

I guess I should have been more specific. I should have asked how, where, etc in Erie. So, is pitching spoons into the lake at the mouth the way to go, or in the tribs close to the mouth, or are some tribs/mouths better for browns than others, etc.?
 
"Rainbow Paradise. Pellet fly."
I have no idea what that means...LOL
 
It is better late in the season or early in the season? It sounds to me like a brown trout is something that you catch once in a while by accident while you are fishing for steelhead. Is that about it, or can you specifically target big browns? Thanks guys. 
 

slabdaddy

"Rainbow Paradise. Pellet fly."
I have no idea what that means...LOL

Rainbow Paradise is the place. pellet fly is the bait. You are almost guaranteed to get a giant brown there.
 
Browns in erie seem pretty random to me, if you want to target them specifically Id try one of the western Lake O tribs.

I've been fishing the Erie tribs for steelhead for about 10 years, and I've caught two browns. One was at 16 mile under the bridge in 2003 on an egg sack, and the other was a citation brown, last year at Elk creek, along the shale wall, on a PA infamous pink worm (I know youre not a fly fisherman). I'm not really sure how you separate catching browns from steelhead, but I've always assumed it's just chance. Heck, as long it's a big trout, I don't really care what it is

capcity_tim

I had two nice browns on a stringer last year and two punk kids stole them when I was taking a pee in the woods.

 
LOL! NICE!

Minnows is what I always catch stocked browns on, And I always have preferred some current where I am fishing. But I really don't know to much about brown trout in erie let alone fishing in erie, I know they are all just stupid stocked fish, still can't catch them though. Although I feel like targeting them specifically would be a waste, so many steelhead right there to catch too.

So your the one that got it posted....nice work.

Only keep BROWN TROUTS.Release all steelhedz.Its da law.Oh, you didn't no?

Yeah, I was under the impression that some of the Mile Creeks were more likely to hold browns than others, but I haven't seen anything on this thread to confirm it. Oh well. Maybe I'll get lucky and tie into one on Elk.

I caught a fluke. They are finally up to Rt. 5.

Like others have said, browns are pretty much just a bonus fish on Lake Erie tribs, but they are a nice surprise. I caught a 23" brown yesterday, my first one in the past few years. Browns seem to run the Lake Ontario tribs in October, in better numbers than the PA streams.

kush

Like others have said, browns are pretty much just a bonus fish on Lake Erie tribs, but they are a nice surprise. I caught a 23" brown yesterday, my first one in the past few years. Browns seem to run the Lake Ontario tribs in October, in better numbers than the PA streams.

Since 50 to 100K were stocked in PI Bay and the tribs in 2010, they should be more than just a  bonus fish.  Thatt's about 10 % of the stocking program. 
 

FiveMilePete

kush

Like others have said, browns are pretty much just a bonus fish on Lake Erie tribs, but they are a nice surprise. I caught a 23" brown yesterday, my first one in the past few years. Browns seem to run the Lake Ontario tribs in October, in better numbers than the PA streams.

Since 50 to 100K were stocked in PI Bay and the tribs in 2010, they should be more than just a  bonus fish.  Thatt's about 10 % of the stocking program. 

 
Maybe the PFBC's direct stocking, but IIRC, there's something on the order of 3 million plus per year put in through the combined efforts of the PFBC, organizations like 3CU, and other non-state efforts.  That'd put browns somewhere in the 3.5% neighborhood.  Still by no means rare, but it's something to keep in mind before you get disappointed when you aren't pulling a brown in for every 10 steelbows.  Really, that 3.5% figure seems about right for this year, for the increase I've seen over the last two years.

FiveMilePete,
 
True, but this has only been done for two years.  To see a big return rate on 10% of the fish stocked in just two years is not going to happen. Think of how many steelhead smolts get stocked, 90% more than browns for the past two years and 100% more in how many years the stocking program has been going on.  I dont think you will ever see big numbers of browns in Lake Erie tribs as the amount of browns stocked is miniscule to the amount of smolts stocked, however I do think you will conintue to see a few more browns each year as they continue to stock but they will always be a trophy fish.