Brook Trout Will go after worms, flies, grasshoppers and other natural bugs. The most popular hooks for the brook trout is the Gold Plated Eagle Claw Trout hook. One great way to fish the slow moving streams and deep rapids is with a saugeen river trout float rig. Every six inches you will want to put a very small sinker on the line. In the spring millions of suckers are spawning. The suckers come out of the lakes and go up or down stream. The problem is all the trout will go to the sucker eggs, so if the suckers are spawning you may have to go up or down stream a ways to find hungry Brook trout. One more thing, always wet your hands before handling trout. They have very sensitive skin and if you hold one with dry hands you will rub there protective layer off there skin and they will die of infection.