hmmmm...those Browns sound alot like our Dollys....fish gobblers....although I know nothing directly about Browns. I'm not happy with protection for "Bull" (capital B) trout, as they are about as much use as squaw fish... no good to eat and aggresive gobblers of salmon, trout, and steelhead fry and smolts.
In one instance while spooning for iron on the Skagit, I hooked a Dolly that had a 10" rainbow in its craw. The trout was too big for the Dolly to swallow outright, so its entire tail was still hanging out of the Dolly's mouth when it hit my spoon.
Just my two cents worth...go ahead, try to sell me on all the wonderful attributes of our native char. Nothing personal.....but they suck.