I know this isnt equpment related but I didnt know what post to put it on.

Sorry must have hit somthing.

Here it gose

What is your prefrence BIG planted fish of smaller wild fish. In my neck of the wood the Brook trout is king (at least in my book). I would rather catch a 9in brook any day then some fat slob of a planter that lives in some tail water down stream from a power dam.

what are your thoughts

Obviously wild fish (which for me is the same than HiQuality in Flyfishing), for several reasons. Actually so many I can only think of just a few to place here right now.
They are "hard-to-find" now these days, and therefore the places they still live in are marvelous. They feed on relatively non-contaminated-"wild food", also. So, the flies You need to try to "decieve" them are usually not so common patterns, need to learn from the specific place, and the combinations are endless.
The usual behavour of a given species varies so much often than foreign species "thrown" into an artificial lake.
You can learn so much, and add so many tips to your "knowledge data base", in just one fishing trip. I mean also with this statement, things learnt that almost no one notice them to put´em in a book.

I could keep writing all night, all weekend, all week...

Let´s see what the rest comes up with!

I love wild brookies but sometimes yearn for a BIG tug at the other end of the line.
It's all good.

I didnt say why I like them so much.

Big fish, easy to catch = Big crouds of people

Wild fish fight like mad

Wild fish are all different, not clones of each other

Never know what to expect with a wild

It is hard to imagine that the fish you caught had like a 1 in a million chance of living to adult hood.

If you do hook and land a big fish (that is wild) ya know he has been in that river for a while, and he had to be pritty crafty to stay alive.

I might be the first person to ever see this fish, and maybe the last.

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I prefer the wild fish over the big stockers. Give my a golden trout over a planter anytime! Just my $0.02 worth.

mostly i just like to get a line in the water. and what do you meen big stockers where i mostly fish the stockers are only 8" or 10" you can get bigger natives then that if you know where to go. but mostly i just like to throw a fly around. later greg

To be totally honest, I dont know whats planted and whats not here in MT, I will say that I have more fun stalking brookies just about anywhere I go in the Rocky Mt west with the biggest I ever caught being in the 14" and about 2 lb range along the N. St Vrain near Allens Park in days long gone. The next one of any size was one I got last summer along the Gallatin that came in around 10"...

D.