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Trout Question
4/18/2009 1:53:48 AM
I found a local spot that has had a 5-10 trout in the same spot for the past 2 days. I put the bait right in front of them but they don't bite. Any tips for getting these fish to bite? Any bait I should be using in particular. I can drop the hook in right where they are and they won't move more than an inch or two.
4/18/2009 2:30:00 AM
Try them in the evening, morning, or during full moon.
4/18/2009 6:05:23 PM
What are you using for bait?
4/18/2009 9:27:14 PM
Originally Posted By dalesimpson:
What are you using for bait?
What are you using for bait?
spinners, worms, corn, etc.
4/18/2009 9:50:09 PM
For stream fishing (which I assume this is) I'd go with a non-floating bait and a small treble hook. No weight. Let the current drift it through right over them, try several times. This has taken more stream trout in the eastern sierra than anything else for me, usually with something dumb for bait, like velveeta.
4/22/2009 8:52:33 PM
Stream trout are very tricky. If they get spooked first you will never get them to bite.
I usually use trout woks on a #8 hook. cast pat them and reel very very very slowly up to them. But if they aren't feeding they are feeding.
I usually use trout woks on a #8 hook. cast pat them and reel very very very slowly up to them. But if they aren't feeding they are feeding.
4/30/2009 7:19:51 PM
I have had very good luck using a 1/2 of a nightcrawler on small(size 10) hook. no weights. no swivel. hide the hook very well in the nightcrawler. this allows the bait to drift naturally.
5/8/2009 7:10:32 PM
Stream trout are dumb as a rock. Try grasshoppers, stay back away from them a bit. Use a no. 6 hook and a split shot or two about 16" above it.
5/21/2009 1:13:48 AM
Originally Posted By Rich219:
I found a local spot that has had a 5-10 trout in the same spot for the past 2 days. I put the bait right in front of them but they don't bite. Any tips for getting these fish to bite? Any bait I should be using in particular. I can drop the hook in right where they are and they won't move more than an inch or two.
I found a local spot that has had a 5-10 trout in the same spot for the past 2 days. I put the bait right in front of them but they don't bite. Any tips for getting these fish to bite? Any bait I should be using in particular. I can drop the hook in right where they are and they won't move more than an inch or two.
I have done this many times growing up and most likely they will never bite unless perfect bait is presented. I grew up in CO trout fishing. Try a #7 Rapala jointed and reel/pull, or a small mepps spinner. May work!!
5/21/2009 4:28:21 AM
salmon roe
5/21/2009 8:53:27 PM
Red, White, and Blue Power Bait works real well around here. I clip a #8 snell hook directly on a swivel with 1 large piece of splitshot. Cast upstream and crank it in about 3/4 of the stream speed. Works well enough I feed myself almost every day I want to.
5/21/2009 10:41:27 PM
if you can see them, they can see you...
and typically that means they arent biting unless REALLY hungry
but you can try all the different baits you want, you might get lucky
and typically that means they arent biting unless REALLY hungry
but you can try all the different baits you want, you might get lucky
5/22/2009 3:51:51 AM
To this thread I bring a PHOTO!!!!
OK..on to the biz...
Before sunrise, and after sunset are the best times to fish..that is, when its light, but not direct sun! That being said.. I sleep in so when I go trout fishing its usually starting around 10am.
The lures in the photo are from left to right, and then top to bottom in time of day..as I use them and have had the most success! Before noon, gold or silver lures such as super duper(501 or 502) or the kastmaster(1/12oz-1/4oz) and the Thomas Buyant t101 1/6oz. As you get further on try switching to the oranges-reds..aka bright! Usually after noonish I start throwing that orange/yellow one, its a berkley 1" micro tube with a small 1/32oz or 1/16oz jig head in it. You can mix that up with some of the darker more natural green and reds such as the lip ripperz Lit’l RipperZ, that color is "poopy doop"!! Those will sustain you through the afternoon. Once the sun starts going down, I go to bright green aka chartreuse, that one shown is chartreuse with sparklies(no specific mfg)...that lure is freaking GOLD!
The 4 left ones are my can work almost any time, anywhere lures.. Panther Martin size 1 gold with black bead, the second one is a fly, it is called a wolly bugger, there are a few versions of it out there, brass bead ones work too, I like olive and black for those. The last two are berkley power nymphs, The three colors I love are toad, olive/pearl, and orange/smoke. Just throw a small baithook or mosquito hook through them(no weight) and drift them down the stream.
Keep in mind that location, time of year, time of day, type of trout all play a factor in this(all my stuff works in the western half of the US) Sometimes it all works GREAT sometimes i want to drop a stick of dynamite in the water, but over all one of the things above will produce something! A few tips..some stated in previous posts. If you can see them, they can see you! Stocked rainbows dont spook bad at all, where as natural german browns hide from themselves! I wear camo when i fish streams, and I will use cover an concealment! A final tip is, if you throw something, and they dont even seem interested, change up! I will give most things 3-5 casts if no interest, I change!
A few other suggestions that I will resort to when pissed, drifting salmon eggs or power or gulp salmon eggs. Or some power bait dough or turbo dough on a salmon egg hook. This tends to work when NOTHING else will.
OK..on to the biz...
Before sunrise, and after sunset are the best times to fish..that is, when its light, but not direct sun! That being said.. I sleep in so when I go trout fishing its usually starting around 10am.
The lures in the photo are from left to right, and then top to bottom in time of day..as I use them and have had the most success! Before noon, gold or silver lures such as super duper(501 or 502) or the kastmaster(1/12oz-1/4oz) and the Thomas Buyant t101 1/6oz. As you get further on try switching to the oranges-reds..aka bright! Usually after noonish I start throwing that orange/yellow one, its a berkley 1" micro tube with a small 1/32oz or 1/16oz jig head in it. You can mix that up with some of the darker more natural green and reds such as the lip ripperz Lit’l RipperZ, that color is "poopy doop"!! Those will sustain you through the afternoon. Once the sun starts going down, I go to bright green aka chartreuse, that one shown is chartreuse with sparklies(no specific mfg)...that lure is freaking GOLD!
The 4 left ones are my can work almost any time, anywhere lures.. Panther Martin size 1 gold with black bead, the second one is a fly, it is called a wolly bugger, there are a few versions of it out there, brass bead ones work too, I like olive and black for those. The last two are berkley power nymphs, The three colors I love are toad, olive/pearl, and orange/smoke. Just throw a small baithook or mosquito hook through them(no weight) and drift them down the stream.
Keep in mind that location, time of year, time of day, type of trout all play a factor in this(all my stuff works in the western half of the US) Sometimes it all works GREAT sometimes i want to drop a stick of dynamite in the water, but over all one of the things above will produce something! A few tips..some stated in previous posts. If you can see them, they can see you! Stocked rainbows dont spook bad at all, where as natural german browns hide from themselves! I wear camo when i fish streams, and I will use cover an concealment! A final tip is, if you throw something, and they dont even seem interested, change up! I will give most things 3-5 casts if no interest, I change!
A few other suggestions that I will resort to when pissed, drifting salmon eggs or power or gulp salmon eggs. Or some power bait dough or turbo dough on a salmon egg hook. This tends to work when NOTHING else will.
5/22/2009 6:07:29 AM
Yellow Powerbait with glitter on a #10 baitholder with a BB split shot bout 15 inches up the line cast up stream is what I use when its time to kill fish.... We call it trout cocaine in these parts... Will outfish a nightcrawler hands down.
Have you considered iany percussion tactics????
Have you considered iany percussion tactics????
