Adirondack Park is an amazing place. It is literally tens of thousands of protected land mixed in with many small towns. So it's a unique combination of public/private lands, including Lake Placid, home of the 1980 Winter Olympics.
There are innumerable streams, trails, and small mountains to hike, fish, and climb. The Park is full of trout, because most of the streams are stocked (we are in New York). So there are no true "wild" trout, per se, but good fishing none-the-less.
I fished on a series of private ponds, found just outside the park. These ponds were stocked with Canadian brook trout - BIG brookies. I caught two 15 inch fish, and none were smaller than 10 inches. I also fished the various streams and caught many small brookies. The stream brookies can be harvested, so none of these fish grow very big.
This part of my trip has reinforced my opinion that brook trout will never get very big unless they are protected. The brookies that I caught were huge because very few people fished in the ponds. Brookies CAN AND WILL get big, but they need time.
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That there is a pretty fish.
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