Uhhh....sike.

I too will avoid the combat fishing. not my cuppa tea.

But I can say that a lot of children get their first exposure to fishing when their parents take them out to chuck corn and pellet bait at them. So there's a rainbow to this story after all....

I like the combat zone. Take the grandkids out and let them catch their five (with a little help from Dadaw), take the G-kids home to parents and eat the rest.
The fun is letting the kids play, the wisdom is getting a very good free dinner.

i cant wait either, the stripers really like the stockings

Yeah, I would rather be catching those stocker redfish on the coast - all growed up of course. Talk about put-and-take on a massive scale!

That image of a rainbow trout is priceless.

You could get the t-shirt.

I have good memories of catching those trout with my dad as kid, but I can't bring myself to catch them with a flyrod!

I'm waitin for the movie

hahahahah! do they make sweatshirts? I gotta wear one when im catching them!

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In the ponds around here, I see the commorants showing up and eating them left and right. Nortwest Park in Irving is a prime example

I bet they take out 300 to 500 trout the first few days

when do the trout come in and which ponds do they go to?

Go to http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us and then search on "trout stocking". Last winter's stocking is there until stocking starts for this winter.

Trout Stocking Scedule When Where and How Many

heard from a reliable source, that this year may not be so good, and might not even happen. appears the drought is hurting the hatcheries, as well as the rivers and lakes. will keep you all informed if i hear anything about it. if it doesn't happen, i guess we will have to go carp fishing?

You mean that other non indigenous species in Texas?

just like Florida Largemouth, Striped bass, hybrid bass, redfish and the list goes on. Carp are actually considered naturalized by TPWD.

I say they hurt the smaller indigenous, some, by eating up part of the local food base.

Naa, they're not there long enough to have an impact on indigenous food sources. I was thinking the hatcheries were in Missouri? Not raining there either? I imagine their water resources are extremely stable? Carp in winter, now there's a challenge I can't handle!

I know we had rainbows at the state hatchery in San Marcos when I used to work there, but that was back in the late 90's.

I thought some of them came from that hatchery out at Possum Kingdom, too, but I could be wrong about that.

I know the ones here in the D/FW area comes from Athens.
I call every year (regardless of what schedule on internet has)and find out the time of day they may release. All info comes straight out of the Athens Fishery.

Down here in the south-east corner, they come from the hatchery in Jasper. The strain of trout the use came from Missouri? I think???? Seems like I read that somewhere, but it must have made a big impression on me, at the time.

Kirk

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2011-2012 Trout Stocking Schedule has been posted!

I just got my email from TPWD about the stocking.

How does this work, you just go the evening of or a couple days after the stocking and fish? what might the protocal be?

At some point on the appointed day, the truck with the silver boxes on it will show up, back down close to the water, toss in a 6" hard hose, and open up a couple of compartments.
If you're there to see it happen, you'll see a couple of hundred to a thousand panicked, disoriented shiny fish race around like they've done lost their minds. (They have!! The poor rascals have gone from a protected concrete raceway, to a dark box that jostled them all about, to an open body of water where strangers are trying to eat them.)
If you get lucky, within about an hour, you should start seeing fish caught. From then until about a week, sometimes 2 weeks, you should still be able to catch a few fish.

Kirk

well I will start working on my reminders on my calandar