By Eric Sharp, Detroit Free Press
BURT, N.Y. (MCT) - If you catch a 9-pound brown trout on a fly rod, you'd think you could expect some bragging rights. Not here at the Burt Dam, a couple of miles up 18 Mile Creek from Lake Ontario.
The 9-pound, 4-ounce brown (29 inches long) is my personal best on fly, nearly 2 pounds bigger than the previous personal-best brown I caught in New Zealand a few years ago. But in the past 20 minutes on this little tailwater stream, my rooster crest has been deflated by watching three other anglers land browns that are even bigger.
A 33-incher that pushes 15 pounds was caught...