Today on a trip to the local nature reserve I snagged a booklet that had a number of reservations in MA listed and under one of them it said that there is a brook a few miles away from where I live that has a fairly healthy population of native salter brook trout. If anyone knows anything about these fish or has been fishing for them, I would like to know what kind of gear is necessary to haul in these fish. I've got a 5 wt fly rod I can use for them, I'm wondering if that would be suitable or if I should switch to some heavier spinning gear. Also, I'm leaning towards bringing some streamers like a white zonker and a Puglisi minnow, are these good choices? Suggestions? I'm in the dark about trout in general, and completely clueless about sea run brookies, any help at all is much appreciated.

salter brookies? Do they live in salt water? If anything I would go for the streamers dont know about white. If they live in salt water then I would say go with some kind of shrimp pattern. Also anything that mimmics what they are eating now. Worms are minns should always work for trout. If ur planing on fishing for them when they come into the creeks to spawn then eggs or egg sacks. I usually use a 9 ft noodle rod, spinning reel.  Fly rod alot of people would say 7wt. 9 to 10 ft. You could buy egg patterns for fly rod or a deer hair fry pattern.  Buggers should work. If you want something new to try maybe a mouse pattern. I hear browns love them.

skewl, hit your web browser with "salters trout" and the websites will line up for you. If you just try salters, you will get people sites. Sea run Brook trout might work also as that is the "proper" title.

When useing my fly rod, fishing for sea run Dollys and Cuts,( we don't have Brookies) I prefer to use a embrio emerging, egg pattern, on a #8 hook. Quite effective!
Allen