Grout Brook is still a mystery to me. The DEC public rights map lists only rainbow trout as the species but not only did we catch several panfish but HUGE bass at this outlet of Skaneateles Lake. The DEC map is linked here:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/r7groutbrpfr.pdf. We started at the Sweeney Hill Road spot. It was very pretty but the water was very low. So we drove through the hills to Glen Haven Road. There is a little park there with outhouses, a couple of docks and a path that heads up to the lake. We started on the docks.
We caught several perch and panfish on worms.
Then we headed down the trail toward the lake. We found several more panfish but also a huge group of large bass hanging out under branches on our side of the water. We caught a couple that had to be brought up in a net.
On our way back to the docks to catch more perch and sunfish, we saw bullhead making nests near the shore. It was very interesting to watch them defend it and swish their tails to make it.
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ReplyDeletehey not trying to be a dick but thats not actually grout brook. Thats actually a small cove of Skanneatles lake. Grout brook is down the road to the west. It receives a run of rainbows in the spring, and has wild browns which I assume reside there year round. Maybe some run into the lake. They average around 6 inches. I guess in the fall you could get atlantic salmon as well. Maybe walleye in the spring as I heard they are now established in the lake. There are 4 access points to the stream. I had good luck there last fall and unlike most trout streams it is open to fishing until December 31 to the first barrier impassible to fish as a tributary to skanneatles lake
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