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Post by jakebird on Apr 22, 2008 0:19:23 GMT -4
This is the place to post your favorite tips for catching trout....bait, lures, secret techniques, etc. Share your tips and learn from other self proclaimed experts!
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Post by jakebird on Apr 22, 2008 0:24:50 GMT -4
As spring fades into summer, and water conditions change toward low and clear, you can still fool those wary trout. After the first few weeks, I switch to 2lb test, usually flourocarbon and very small hooks...usually size #14 and #16 single hooks. For bait, my go to is a single waxworm or even a maggot fished with one or two tiny split shot suspended under a small wood float. This allows my bait to drift naturally in the current, and also detect those subtle strikes. Adjust the float for the depth of the water, so the bait is drifting just off or slightly ticking the bottom. You will catch some small creek chubs using this technique, but you will also outfish nearly everyone else when you master it. Good luck and tight lines!
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Post by jakebird on Apr 27, 2008 22:16:19 GMT -4
Ever tried for a frustrating palomino (golden) that just doesn't seem to want to bite? I have. I've also managed to catch a fair number of them. The key is persistence, and breaking out of the mold. Sometimes, keeping something in their face will irritate them inot striking out of aggression. i used this trick on a particluar golden a few years ago. I literally fished for him for nearly 4 hours straight. Using mainly spinners I provoked him into finally hitting on what had to be over the 1,000th cast! That one was 19". I caught a larger one two years ago by using something out of the ordinary. Thsi one was lying at the head of a long pool. He would look at my tradiitonal offerings of waxworms, salmon egs, powerbait, spinners, etc...but wouldn't commit. Searching through my vest, I found a small baggie of old fermented corn fron several weeks ago that had been in my vest pocket turning rancid in the sun. My first cast the corn fell off the hook it was so soft, but he nailed it as it drifted by him. Second cast, he gobbled it up and I had him. That one was 23". Try new things they haven't seen and above all be persistent. Also, try fishing for them right after a rain when the water is discolored or even at night....they may be more eager to bite. Good luck and tight lines!
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Post by yihunt on Feb 3, 2009 22:24:56 GMT -4
As spring fades into summer, and water conditions change toward low and clear, you can still fool those wary trout. After the first few weeks, I switch to 2lb test, usually flourocarbon and very small hooks...usually size #14 and #16 single hooks. For bait, my go to is a single waxworm or even a maggot fished with one or two tiny split shot suspended under a small wood float. This allows my bait to drift naturally in the current, and also detect those subtle strikes. Adjust the float for the depth of the water, so the bait is drifting just off or slightly ticking the bottom. You will catch some small creek chubs using this technique, but you will also outfish nearly everyone else when you master it. Good luck and tight lines! I started using this technique on all slow moving streams and streams with eddys that i can't reach with split shot. The added weight allows me to cast farther and I can control the direction of the drift into the eddy
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Post by troutmaster on Feb 4, 2009 15:30:54 GMT -4
The key to PA trout are my custom made spinners.... I've gone to streams where no one is catching a thing by mid morning on opening and pulled in 20 trout in an hour or two. Theres just something about them that set stocked trout off. You wouldn't believe how many people have tried to buy these things off me after seeing this. But how can you sell a sure thing like that?? Gotta keep some secrets or everyone will be outfishing you before you know it!
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Post by jakebird on Mar 27, 2009 11:10:35 GMT -4
Another of my trout strategies is to get out and scout before season. Stocking locations and amounts can change drastically from year to year. Failure to do so has produced some unhappy openers for me in the past. If you are able to, consider helping stock. They post the dates to the public, and the drivers will really appreciate the help. Your fringe benefit for helping out is your firsthand knowledge of where the big ones are puit and what locations got more fish. When I have a spot or two or three in mind, I keep tabs on the fish in the weeks and days before season. A bag of old bread and some polarized glasses do the trick, and its loads of fun for the kids. Just try to be a little stealthy and not advertise your good spots to the passersby. Now.....for my dirtiest little trick. If you have a spot that you want to fish and it has limited parking. Convince your buddies who are coming with to drive separate, and park just far enough apart not to allow any more vehicles in between. Done correctly, you can with only a few vehicles, pretty much take up a small parking area along a road. Dirty, yes. But opening day crowds can get heavy. Why not help keep it down a tad where you are at? Never once had anyone stop and ask us to move for them. Folks drive by and see its full and keep going to another spot. Just try not to be TOO obvious with this tactic. It's not nearly as fun to have it done to you! (Of course when I get there at 3:45 am it's usually empty still!) Good luck and tight lines to everyone!
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Post by mrlongbeard on Mar 27, 2009 20:19:55 GMT -4
go to your local fishing shop and get the small split shot they use for fly fishing. when water is low and slow this keeps the bait on the bottom and allows it to flow freely thru the water.
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Post by yihunt on Apr 12, 2009 12:55:27 GMT -4
Here's a little trick I learned a long time ago with hatchery raised trout stocked in lakes.
Get a hand full of small pebbles, (pea gravel works best) and toss across the water as if your broadcast feeding. Hatchery raised trout are accustomed to being fed and sometimes the sound of the pebbles hitting the water mimics the sound of the feed hitting the water and gets the trout active.
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Post by cwilliams on May 3, 2010 9:39:49 GMT -4
ive learned all sorts of tricks and ways to catch fish over the past two years. big fish and goldens become stupid at nightfall and rainy days. also if you cant catch a single fish use some trout magnets. hombrew spinners are the most effective spinners. waving a lure back and forth in front of a fishes face 50 times will usally cause it to strike.
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Post by biggtrout on May 13, 2010 0:38:45 GMT -4
I usually like to fish with minnows strung up with a double hook - but when that is not working, here are my other tactics:
1. Dry fly with a nymph dropper, where the dry fly acts mostly as a bobber.
2. Redworm or half a nighcrawler - hooked on one end.
3. Trout magnet bobbers with live minnows lipped hooked or waxworms.
4. Spinners - my go-to are Panther-Martin - red/yellow/silver or black/yellow/gold - this year I have been having alot of luck with a gold and red Vibrax.
Light lines, smaller hooks and hiding the bait as mentioned are all good. Switching baits to something new the fish have not seen is also a good tip. The fish seem to want something that is very familiar and safe to them, something they find irrestible, or something new.
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Post by tbass on May 13, 2010 10:29:42 GMT -4
Strangely enough, I used to catch them with Swedish fish and purple bubble gum many years ago. The purple Swedish fish worked great on palomino trout.
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Post by cwilliams on May 18, 2010 9:45:44 GMT -4
any sort of jig floated just off the bottom will pick up any fish that you were unable to get with anything else.
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Post by strech1233 on Apr 5, 2011 13:25:46 GMT -4
dont be afraid to mix things up. spinners spoons and small minnow lures. i try to do most of my fishing with artificial lures and one of my new tricks is to use small crappie tubes when the fish are being finicky
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Post by tracer on Apr 17, 2011 12:12:23 GMT -4
Great tips guys, keep them coming.
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