Trout

[Sir Bert]

Hello everyone. I might be posting a lot on here but I'm just curious and eager to learn about fishing.

Anyhow. I was wondering what tackle worked for trout fishing? I know flies and such, but what about other lures and live baits?

[MCS]

Berkeley trout worms, salmon eggs....live bait hellgrammites are what my uncle swore by.

[HeavyDluxe]

Was just out fishing for native brookies with some friends yesterday... Happily, we'll be frying up the fruits of our labor tonight.

This is my first year *ever* of trout fishing, so take this with a grain of salt. Assuming you're talking about fishing for trout in rivers, however, here's what we've found works. We fish in a couple stages:

First stage uses light spinning tackle (I use ultralight gear), #8 or smaller hooks, a splitshot sinker, and earthworms. Crimp the splitshot on 8 or more inches above the hook and bait with a decent, but only hook-sized, chunk of worm. Pitch the into deep pools and let it sink/settle. An occasional light jig and reel to reposition if there's no action is all that's needed. If there's a lot of current, try to cast upstream from the hole you'd like to explore and let things drift back down naturally.

Once the bite slows, onto stage two... still with light tackle, pitch a couple other baits into likely hollows. Small trout jigs or spinners seem to be the norm (but, again, what do I know). The idea seems to be to entice bites from any fish that were spooked by our presence at first or were simply not interested in the worm offerings.

I've heard people talk about using eggs and other real baits, but almost everyone we've seen trout fishing is either fishing worms or throwing flies.

[RobbyZ5001]

It will vary depending on where your fishing. Are you fishing rivers, streams, or lakes?

If all I had was a rapala CD-5 in silver/blk, trout magnets, and rooster tails I would catch trout just about anywhere.

[tholmes]

I've had pretty good results with UL spinning gear using small in-line spinners such as Mepps, Panther Martin and Rooster Tails. Tiny little Roadrunner type jigs are pretty good too. I've even caught trout on the smallest size of Rat-L-Traps in chrome and gold colors.

Tom

[Marty]

A friend fishes for trout during the colder months when he's not bass fishing and his boat is winterized. His success rate shot up dramatically after he started using Floating Rapalas.

[NoBassPro]

For lures, as mentioned smaller spoons, spinners and minnowbaits. I have gotten more numbers on spoons and spinners and a little better quality on minnowbaits on average. For livebait, worms are the usual summer choice, and salmon eggs will get you any trout type fish in the river around here in fall or spring. Stand a chance of stream trout, salmon or steelhead with those.