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Trout bait? #4117645 11/04/09 08:36 PM
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What's yalls preferance on trout bait? Also, does anyone know when they start stocking the rivers with trout?

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When i lived in Colorado i caught a few on salmon eggs but the biguns liked (earthworms)

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Contact TPWD for trout stocking dates.
My first time fishing for them last year in a local city park pond.
String cheese was suggested, but I only caught a catfish and one trout
I switched to an ultra lite spinning rod with 4# line. Using a casting bubble I fished small flies. That did the trick. Seems like most any small fly I threw out was hit.
This year I am using a fly rod and trying out some of my home made flies.


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it's been a while since I fished them in NM, I grew up on them. We always did good on this stuff, I think it's Berkley's Power bait.


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put a nightcrawler with salmon eggs and some trout attractaint and you will catch something
in california i would catch them with small kastmaster slabs

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Salmon eggs, meps, and small rattle traps have worked for me....and of course the most natural food to stocked trout is corn. grin


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Back in the early 90's , I lived in Saugus Ca. ...I would catch trout on Velvetta cheese at Lake Piru.

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i think this year im tryn some differnet stuff salmon egg's, panther martins,& velvetta. iusually use worms or that power bait stuff


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powerbait, balls o fire, corn, worms-soft baits

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I've fished for trout a lot in Arkansas and Montana, and some in Colorado. The best lures are in-line spinners like RoosterTails and Panther Martins, 1/16, 1/8, or 1/6 oz. depending on the water situation. Good baits are worms, corn, or Berkley Powerbait. Mash down the barb on the hook, that will make life much easier.

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Originally Posted By: Tallgrass05
I've fished for trout a lot in Arkansas and Montana, and some in Colorado. The best lures are in-line spinners like RoosterTails and Panther Martins, 1/16, 1/8, or 1/6 oz. depending on the water situation. Good baits are worms, corn, or Berkley Powerbait. Mash down the barb on the hook, that will make life much easier.


why do you say mash down the barb on the hook?

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ahhh i can't wait...thanks for yalls responses. will probably try the salmon eggs, panther martins, worms, and cheese. don't know much about the casting bubble. is that just like a bobber or somthing?

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trout chow from feed store you can chum with it and it is what they raise them on.... it is kind of hard so use a needle to drill a hole to attach to a small hook a small drill bit also works have not tried a hair rig yet(carper style) but should work also. you can also use brown puff balls from a craft store to make a egg fly that looks like the trout chow. throw a handfull of trout chow and throw your baited hook and it will be on. small spoons also work well super dupers in small sizes 500-502 try to find the copper ones hard to find but worth the effert hope this helps. keep a tight line and happy hunting.

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for artifical I like superdupers and mepps

flies i love beadhead nymphs and dries like light cahill, gnats

other baits
powerbait, worms, and powerbait worms

Last year I did really well with anything orange

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usually go to the White River in Arkansas every summer ( Wild Cat Shoals)

I tend to do alot of fly fishing and wadeing when there is not alot of gates open, however we also take the boats out and all of the family fishes, i've seen alot of things mentioned here that we have used but the one thing that we just kill them on is Corn.

Straight out of a can, we fill zip lock bags up and put them in the boat.

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will just have to get me a can then.

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If you want to FISH for them, Mepps spinners (size 00 to 1), small spoons like Super Dupers, ultralite cranks, casting bubble and beadhead nymph or jig...If you want to CATCH them, Power Bait, corn, salmon eggs.

If you don't know what a casting bubble is, do a search here at TFF or Google it.

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casting bubble is used it you want to fish with flies on conventional tackle. Powerbait works best for the stockers. #10 hook on a split shot rig, 6# line on a ultra light. Chartreuse is probably the #1 producing color I have seen. I prefer to fy fish for them but will break out the powerbait if things get real tough


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We go to OK and AR for trout and I like ultra lite spinning gear w 4 lb test and no weight, Texas rig a natural colored 4 in power worm and watch for line movement. Works great on rainbows and brownies. Can't remember the hook size but it's so small I can't tie a knot with my fat fingers.

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We go to OK and AR for trout and I like ultra lite spinning gear w 4 lb test and no weight, Texas rig a natural colored 4 in power worm and watch for line movement. Works great on rainbows and brownies. Can't remember the hook size but it's so small I can't tie a knot with my fat fingers.

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Mash the barb for ease of getting the hook out of the trout's mouth. Get a pair of forceps, they are handier than needle-nose pliers for trout. Just a couple of bucks at Cabela's or a sporting goods store.

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The stocking times will be out the middle of November most stocking start around the first of December and run thru Feb. The best rigs are 4/6 pound test line rigged with a #14 or #16 treble hooks with a small split shot approx 12 inches above the hook. The most successful baits are Berkley trout powerbait dough in garlic,
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Try the little trout worms rigged with a Tru-turn arbendene hook about #8-#10, exposed. 4-6# Green line. I like Stren Magan-Thin.

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A bubble is a clear bobber. Most are egg shaped that you fill with water to add weight for casting. You can find them at Bass Pro and the like. They apparently don't spook the fish as much as an old Red and White bobber. That may work on wild trout but I don't think it matters much to a hatchery released fish. The like anything bright colored.

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I fish for trout all the time, best bait is Berkley power baits in the paste, usually the most glitter is the best. They come in many difference colors. Use a very small trout salmon egg type hook and just "ball up" the paste on the hook and get ready! I fish with 4lb test and a 1/4 ounce sinker tied 18" above the hook and let it sit on bottom.

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salmon eggs, soft plastics, shrimp,

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In-line spinner baits in bright colors work very well.

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I have had the best luck with z-ray lures. I took some to Roaring River and caught trout almost every cast and those fish see just about everything. It was fun - had people wanting to know my secret and offering to buy my lures. Gave most of them away to kids before I left. I caught several trout last year at Tyler State Park using the rainbow colored z-ray.

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Lots of great input here, but four of the top producers for trout aren't listed. Unfortunately the best stocker baits are not readily available locally.

With the possible exception of flies, the two best baits in northern waters for big trout are undoubtedly suspending Rapalas/Rogues/Xraps, etc, and 4" tubes. Yes, metal works very well, too, as do all the worms, PB, salmon eggs, and such.

To really knock 'em dead learn fly/bubble fishing, but with propeller flies.

...but without a doubt, over the last few years, if I could only take one bait/set up, it would be Gulp eggs. I have seen literally thousands of trout, from stockers to trophies, from bows and browns, to brookies and cutts attack this bait with abandon while the rest of the anglers were getting their butts kicked.

More than the bait, however, is the system that makes Gulp eggs so phenomenal. When the time gets closer, if any of you come upon some of these little beauties, and wanna learn about technique and setup, just give me a hollar.

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put a nightcrawler with salmon eggs and some trout attractaint and you will catch something
in california i would catch them with small kastmaster slabs


I believe you are refering to a power mouse, white gulp, salmon egg and a nightcrawler



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When they first put in those stocker fish they will usually bite on any color of Berkley Trout Bait by the second day usually the best colors are glitter yellow, yellow, salmon peach and garlic. In the gulp white and capt america. The best deep water lure is the BLue fox vibrax in the 1/4 oz. If you are fishing on the Gualalupe please do not use corn trout have a difficult time digesting corn and usually die.
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If you are fishing on the Gualalupe please do not use corn trout have a difficult time digesting corn and usually die.


that is a myth . they do have a hard time digesting but it won't kill them.


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caught the limit in about an hour at one pond with corn a year or two ago.

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Trout, otherwise known as slimers. That is what I have caught over the last 40 yrs, living in NM. River/stream fishing I like black rooster tail 1/16 oz spinners, black 1/16 or 1/32oz jigs. If you have bugs on the shore like grasshoppers that will be the best lure hands down. I will do a simple hook on the line, add the hopper, and I get something allow it to float, usually a stick. Spawning fish, browns in October (Fall) Rainbows in Spring, salmon eggs or power bait. Spring runoff, bounce worms in the muddy off color water. Sitting on the bank of a lake, put a sinker on the bottom and up from that a hook with a worm, then a hook with salmon eggs, above that corn and eggs(or power bait). Then get your UL spin out and cast spoons and spinners (jigs). All else fails get a pistol pete and a cast-a-bubble reel it in slowly (various flies too). Oh if the water is too cold, you have to bounce a worm right on their nose in slack water.

Got a boat on a trout lake ... get a contraption called a cow bell or christmas tree (bunch of spinners on a wire), put on a rubber snubber then your hook, treble is not a bad idea. Put on a fat worm. Slow troll add weight to the swivel where you attach your line to the cow bell if needed to get deeper ... works!! Catch a fish, and you will, make note of where depth, etc. Keep trolling thru there, dumb fish. LOL

If they are eating minnows, small cranks work too, but the black jigs are really good.

P.S. One more thing I tried a banjo minnow the other day (August LOL) and caught a 20" rainbow, it was a horse very fat. I kept jerking the banjo minnow around let it do the death fall and quiver. Those bigger trout eat them minnows.

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Just got back from South Lakes Park in Denton. Caught 8 between 4 and 6 pm. Got allot of strikes on both pink powerbait and orange w/glitter powerbait. Had a great time, kept two that were about 12-inches for a fresh trout dinner tonite. Gonna be tasty.

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Power bait or about 1/2 a mini marshmallow on a very small salmon egg hook have been my go to baits.

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