i generally just lurk on here and enjoy the info and lively banter. But i have a little time to burn today, being that my coworkers and I are merely looking busy whilst waiting for the Christmas Party brisket and sausage to cook…
here’s a question that will liven the hearts of many of us that dwell in the land of the tailwater fishery: where was your first wild trout caught?
It was a coastal cutthroat about seven inches long. The Calapooia River runs through my town and I fish it often. Last year I caught my first and only trout of the season on a deer hair nymph. I drifted it in the current along a log and the little fish took it. It fought hard. I placed it in shallow water protected by clumps of grass. It was there for twenty minutes before it shot away back into the current. At that point I was already hooked on this sport, but that sealed it. This year I caught dozens of trout, mostly rainbows and all wild fish. My one and three weight rods are perfect. It appears that the river is coming back from years of very few trout.
“Give me ambiguity or give me something else”
Wild trout in my area are little brookies.
There’s plenty of them around. They even spawn in the little brook in the back yard.
I’ve caught my share over the years, but I don’t remember the first.
They’re awful purdy though 
The first trout that I caught was wild. It was caught on a nymph drifted under an indicator.
JeremyH
A Cut Throat on the St. Joe in ID with a Sulpher.
I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here!
Cactus
…about 31 years ago…out of this creek in NE Michigan
and it looked something like this…
My first wild trout was caught on a pheasant tail nymph on a small freestoner in the Delaware Water Gap in August, 2004. It was a brown. No springs that I know of, but the stream runs through a gorge and there is some serious canopy.
That same day I also caught a wild rainbow and a wild brook trout for the cycle. Yep, all three successfully reproduce in that stream.
A very large trout in Alaska caught on a salmon egg fly. Haven’t caught anything that big since.
A 7in wild Brookie on Looking Glass Creek on a Bead head Hair’s Ear.
My first wild trout was caught in a small dammed lake off a feeder stream of the Neversink River in NY. While I can’t picture the fish or the year it was about 1953 when I was about 4 years old.
jed
PS My first wild trout was caught with a worm, beatle or breadball, I’m not sure which.
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My first wild trout was a Westslope Cutthroat from the South Fork of the Flathead. It was a guide trip that I took with my father and a very memorable trip at that.
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Not exactly sure whether it was on Bear Creek or Little Fishing Creek. Both streams are here in Maryland. Either way it was a beautiful lively brookie. Have only been doing this fly fishing thing for 3 almost four years now, but what a joy it has been so far!
Live each day as if it were your last, some day you’ll be right!
I fished so many smaller stream branches from some of the main streams and rivers in the Georgia mountains that I have forgotten all the names of those smaller stream branches. But it was on one of them.
Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL
“Flip a fly”
Hey empeekay,
Dont be giving away those stream names on this here interweb. 
Heero
Headwaters of the Poudre river, just inside Rocky Mtn National Park, age 12. A greenback cutt about 6 inches long! On a #12 renegade I tied myself. Have been obsessed with wild, native, trout ever since.
DANBOB
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Was 8 or so, on Diamond MT. just across the Wyo-Colo Border in Colo. The creek,Beaver creek on a small Colo. Spinner with NO worm.
Dad has told me, don’t really remember, that we were not catching anything until I took the worm off, then it got fun!
Have not been a fan of bait since then!
Oh yea, it was a brookie about 8-9 inches.
Wyo-blizzard aka Bloody Tom Bonney
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Circa 1970, The Jakeway, Nicholville, NY. 8 inch brookie. He and 4 of his brothers lost their heads and went for a roll in the flour shortly thereafter. A Zebco 202, a can of worms, and a can of Off!, was all that was required in those innocent days.
a nice 8 inch or so brown from the housatonic river in ct it also happens to be the first trout i caught on a fly rod and on a dry no less
I think it would be a 'bow on Tunkwa Lake in BC. (but I’m not sure if they stocked the lake in the late 60’s) …
If it was stocked, … then it would be a 2 lb 'bow on a no-name lake in the McGregor TFL near Prince George.
Christopher Chin, Jonquiere Quebec
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