How would you like to catch these two amazing brook trout on 2 casts?
It was three years ago on tiny water.
I had never fished the stream before.
Looks to me like it is the same fish. That ol’ brookie must have been starving to eat a fly on back to back casts !!
John
not same fish…one inch and half longer and much heavier.
I always let my fish go downstream of where I catch them so they don’t alert the rest.
Look at the gill plate…
They are brothers but not same fish.
Brothers or not, it is remarkable that the spot patterns behind the gill plate, for sure, and along the belly, best I can tell from these pix, are identical !!!
On the trouts I catch, which don’t include brookies, spot patterns are like fingerprints. Do you commonly find identical spot patterns on two fish in the same tiny creek ??
Not trying to be argumentative, Len, just curious how brook trout are so different from other trouts.
John
Brothers or not, it is remarkable that the spot patterns behind the gill plate, for sure, and along the belly, best I can tell from these pix, are identical !!!
On the trouts I catch, which don’t include brookies, spot patterns are like fingerprints. Do you commonly find identical spot patterns on two fish in the same tiny creek ??
Not trying to be argumentative, Len, just curious how brook trout are so different from other trouts.
John
from same outing
Its impossible to argue with the length and girth measurements… But John, I agree with you that the spots are, as far as I can tell, IDENTICAL. Perhaps what we are witnessing is in fact TWIN fish (brothers indeed…but more special!), that have experienced slightly different growth rates over the many years it has taken them to reach their current sizes.
Catching TWINS on back-to-back casts…how cool is that??? 
I understand the questions.
This stream is 3 feet wide in most place.
serious head water.
I remember the outing well.
I caught the smaller of the two first and took it down stream to release it. I do that so as not let the trout alert the hole.
I have a standard pattern too also as far as photos.
No more than 2 of a fish and off it goes.
I went back to the uncropped versions of the file in my photo archives.
I am some times stubborn and pigheaded,
This is the only other brookie photo from that outing.
I try to say I am reasonable
The red spots look most identical but, look at the yellow spots. They are different. At one point both fish have a row of 6 yellow spots but, one one fish the y continue downward and the other has an of set yellow spot. Atleast that is what I see with my old eyes.
I put both originals on a measuring grid today.
OBVIOUSLY two different trout
please tell me where you are looking exactly.
Right behind the gill plates. On one the yellow spots go directly from top to bottom in a straight line. In the other the yellow spots go straight almost to the bottom and the go off to the side. Also, the gill plates are noticably different
I have to agree with those who think these are amazing twins. The pattern in the jaw area is identical, as are the three spots under the eye.
i am doubting my photos also at this time…but my memory of the two brookies will never fade.
Hi,
I think you’ve just got your photo’s mixed up. I don’t doubt your memory, but I’ve circled a few bits of slime, on your fingers and on the fish’s fin, lower left. The similarities in the slim trail on your fingers indicates these must be the same fish since when you released the first that would have washed off the slime and mud and produced a new pattern with the next fish. Also, I can’t find any differences in the fish’s dot patterns that can’t be attributed to the slight change in camera angle.
Beauty of a fish though. And, as we all know, this must be two shots of the smaller one! 
- Jeff
This has to be the shot of the other from the “grassy knoll.”
Is the only other photo during that time frame.
Yes, that must the other one. Nice brace.
- Jeff
Nice gold in the gill plate
Now you’ve got a picture of the “brother” fish!!! I see the indentation you circled on the first pictures. Those fish are pretty. Almost makes me wish we had them here.