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Like Brad suggested in a recent post, I had been doing a lot of research to find brookie streams not too far from where I live (Toronto) for early morning or evening side trips, and it paid off. After my cottage/fishing trip for season opener got cancelled and Algonquin was out of the question due to ice out/flooding situation, I thought I'd put my research to the test. The first access point I tried looked like this Ok they're only in there for the steelheads but I want them brookies, so I am gonna go further north to the more cooler, cleaner and "solo'er" headwaters. And then I found them ... And I made a new friend up there, whom I plan to visit again... I must have caught over 20 of these little brookies, they were small but I was totally fine with that. Knowing that they live 20 mins away from where I live, I was perfectly happy. Throughout the 5 hours I was there, I ran into one person, a freindly angler who showed me pics of what he had caught in this stream. A beautiful 3 pounder brown!!!! just downstream of where I was catching brookies. My question is this - how come the resident brookies don't get as big as the browns in the same waters. What do you guys think? L8R Miro