But what is it like to actually be in Brookie?

Only one person in the whole world can ever get away with calling me Brookie.

Yet she has one clear admission from her Brookie days.

And a brookie that was a lot bigger, I thought but didn't say.

"With Brookie, it was more of a conversation, like two guys in a saloon."

Perhaps there is no big fat brookie there, I think.

"Brookie's an old opponent, but we've been friends for quite a while.

Somewhere underwater the brookie was wagging his great head again.

Several hundred feet beyond the pool I netted another brookie, perhaps a little bigger than the first one.

"Hallo Brookie, do you mind if we talk at table?

Kate and Brookie will announce a memorial celebration of their parents' lives.

On the fourth float, the brookie charged the fly.

I continued to the head of the riffle and took a nice brookie on a Wulff.

He remains one of the few links with the Brookie heyday when it was regularly in the news.

"One day Brookie walked past the lot and saw her name written on the wall," Bucky wrote.

Hoppers are probably the best brookie bait there is.

She said in a neutral voice, "I have to believe that, Brookie.

The lake provides a pleasant area for brookie fishing."

Two casts later, a medium-sized male brookie was mine.

"But Brookie doesn't know what she's talking about."

Hauling out one huge brookie after another, we soon forgot all about the farmer and his dire threats.

A six-inch brookie flashed in the sunlight, and fell back into the brook, free.

Despite being a fan favorite, the band lost, coming second to Jonnie and Brookie.

Oh, frost, given the stories flying around toward the end there, he'd probably claimed he could catch a twenty-pound brookie or something.

I knew where a nice eight-inch brookie was holed up under a sunken stump.

The salmon account for about 75 percent of angler activity on the river, other species fished are brown trout, rainbow trout and brook char.

The Brook Char was also originally stocked but now has become self-sustaining, and reproduces naturally in springs found on the eastern side of the lake.

Just a few minutes ago I let a fine brook trout go.

It is probably the best place in the world to fish for brook trout.

Brook trout are also present in a number of lakes.

Then, as now, there were those who favored the brook trout above all others.

"A brook trout, on my word, such as I have often taken in the streams at home!"

Anyone who has ever caught a brook trout wants to bring back the natives.

The river is also home to bass, brook trout, and other species.

The river offers a large population of brook trout for fishing.

The lake is stocked several times a year with brown and brook trout.

They caught plenty of brook trout but only one without spots.

Aurora, along with brook trout, were the first to decline.

I don't know how many brook trout we caught that day.

Nowhere is this concept more important than in brook trout management.

"That kind of connection really bonds you with brook trout."

He has entered the consciousness of a fish, perhaps a brook trout.

A small number of lakes are stocked with brook trout as well.

He can pull a brook trout out of thin air."

No wonder that biologists say wild brook trout have not been seen in the city for 100 years or more.

Better yet, it was full of hungry brook trout from a foot long and up to three pounds.

"When I see brook trout coming into their colors, it's still like holding magic."

"This should be an ideal sanctuary for these brook trout," he said.

Clear Creek has a native and stocked population of brook trout.

There is a giant statue of a brook trout in the town square.

In previous years, one brook trout a day from the river was the limit, but this year they must all be released.

Thus it was that I found myself returning home late the following evening with a fine catch of brook trout.