Finally got to go and try my luck at our local, Midland, Tx, pond. Just knew the Academy plastic salmon egg fly was THE ticket. Not! Do these guys take anything but corn, cheese and marshmellows?

Berkley pwr baits as well. Never really had any luck on the fly. When it get colder, they will actually hit top water bugs in the evenings. Good luck

BH Hares Ear Nymphs stripped off the bottom and BH Olive Wooly boogers have worked for me in the past at PK.

Mark,

I've been told that it takes a few weeks for the hatchery trout to "go native" and eat the natural bugs that are present in the water system and hence take our flies that imitate them.

Unfortunately, many trout don't last long enough, due to fishing pressure, for that native effect to take place. I've stocked some rainbows in an East Texas pond this year and hope what I've heard is true and that they will indeed go native in a few weeks.

I seem to have some luck with a smaller wooly bugger with either a san juan worm or a black hammer midge as a dropper.

Mark

The local Odessa Trout take #10 Cone Head and Bead Head Wooley Bugger in Black. By the end of January start on Midges and Copper Johns. I have used Thin Mint Wooley Buggers but they don't seem to be popular as the black.

Mark,

Here's some photos of flies Chris Adams is using at the Blue River (Tishomingo Oklahoma)for the hatchery trout there.

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/dfstone@swbell.net/album/576460762381905137

I have had luck in the past with a small bead head wolly bugger in brown or olive

Try lots of bead head type flies, Hares ears, pheasant tails, prince nymphs, weighted wholly buggers (olive) and leeches (black). (They tend to eat off the bottom a lot.) On those rare occassions when they are activly feeding on the surface, Smaller midge patterns and Elk hair caddis have worked for me.

A little flash on all subsurface flies seems to help trigger a strike.

Well my friends I have had no luck so far on pond stockers but in Oklahoma at the lower mountian fork river out side of broken bow I have 2 20inch fish one on a olive bd head wooly bugger and one on a kind of brown orange bd head wooly bugger and after a stocking I have cought as many as 25+ on the same flie's..Bd head nyphs work very well allso....

Thanks All for the tips on Olive Wolly Buggers! Went Sunday and sure enought,that did the trick. Kinda cool to be catchin' trout in Midland, Tx on fly rod.


Is there ANYTHING that will not hit an Olive Wooly Bugger???? I would take on to Amazon for Peacock Bass!!!!!!!!!!

I have lots of luck on 1/124 oz jigs and wolly buggers in several colors.