Do you believe this voracious little Brooke I caught yesterday! A size 16 EWC no less!
Not something to brag about but maybe my smallest ever! What’s next; a sac-fry?
You have to admire he’s intestinal fortitude! :lol: I’ve C&R many RBT and browns that size in really small streams. At least you know the fishery is thriving. But I hate setting the hook on them because they become real flying fish and you have to run into the brush to retrieve them! 
Take-care.
What a little beauty.
How did you manage to haul him in?
Must have had to shot in macro mode. :lol: I have never caught anything that small. I did catch a perch once that gave birth while I was reeling it in.
Great Pic!
Any time I can decide whether or not I can eat the fish, I count it as a caught fish. Whether I let it go or not. Had I caught that little dickens I’d start a contest; Who can share piscatorial success against the smallest piscatorial brain. 
A caught fish is a caught fish.
Thanks for sharing.
I just looked at your pic again. It really is a beautiful fish.
Are California perch live-bearers? Ours lay eggs in Ohio.
Not to highjack the thread, but I also have caught them that small on the Au Sable in Michigan. They do get airborne quite easily.
Joe
LOL…know the feeling. Once while fishing a lake here in MT, I set the hook and sent a grayling flying onto the snowbank behind me. Actually I didnt even realize the fish had taken the fly and was going to cast back out. I thought the line felt weird on the backcast and looked behind me to see this little guy flopping on the snowbank. I realized what happened and was able to release the poor guy back into the water unharmed. I still get a chuckle out of it everytime I think of it.
I have back casted many small bluegill over the last few years. They seem to jump on a nymph just as I start my casting stroke waaaaay too often. It is a fun, but I feel bad when it takes some time to find them. 
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Are California perch live-bearers? Ours lay eggs in Ohio.
Joe[/quote]
That was the first and only time I caught that species of fish. All these years and I thought it was a perch as the fisherman next to me called it that. :? :lol: That was 40 years ago. If only I could recall exactly what it looked like so I could look it up and find out what type of fish it was.
Salmon parr are constantly taking flies when you’re on the river…of course I’m fishing with sz 2-6 Blue Charms or something and fish that size still attack it! :shock:
i caught a little bluegill that size before. sadly they do become airborn easily and the poor guy ended up flying out of the water after hitting my dry fly and unceremoniously perished upon greeting the cinderblock counter weight i keep in front of my boat. 'twas a sad day for fish.
Are California perch live-bearers? Ours lay eggs in Ohio.
Perch in the pacific ocean give live birth, our fresh water ones lay eggs.
Eric
[quote=“Joe_Valencic”]
Are California perch live-bearers? Ours lay eggs in Ohio.
Not to highjack the thread, but I also have caught them that small on the Au Sable in Michigan. They do get airborne quite easily.
Joe[/quote]
Yes, they do. And you wouldn’t believe how high they can fly when propelled by an 11 foot 6 wt. “fly rod”. :shock: I hear that they have about the same radar cross section as a stealth fighter…
Lovely pic, Bamboozle.
Ed
That’s it! I was on a pier at the Cresent City harbor when I landed that birthing perch. :lol: