Thread: Pier fishing got nuthin on these guys...

I agree with Carl...I've caught a great many trout when I was stationed at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota Black Hills on silver Panther Martins; UL rod with 4 lb line worked great for me!! I also did a little fly fishing, usually with small nymphs under a small strike indicator....did OK, but not as good as on the small spinners.

Originally Posted by Pier#r

Standing Room Only for the Opening of Missouri's Trout Season

I wouldn't fish like that even if the trout were full of pearls and had gold teeth. I pity the poor fools...

Originally Posted by ChileRelleno

I'm supposed to be going with my family to vacation at one of our SiL's in Eastern PA.
She has a cabin on a beautiful, heavily wooded trout stream.
Supposed to go at the end of May, water should still be cold and holding hungry fish.

Of course I've no clue what I'm doing when it comes to such fishing.
Anyone care to give me some pointers on targeting them with ultralite spinning gear?
I've a UL 6' 2pc St. Croix Premiere, with a Penn 4300SS and spooled with 4#.

Wet flies, Mepps spinners, cranks/jigs, livebait?
Strike indicator?
Techniques?

Small mepps and tiny rapalas worked for me out west

Thanks for the tips/tricks guys.
I'm looking forward to going this year, I missed out on it last year.
Sure hope my vacation time gets approved.

If it's a stocked steam expect most fish to be 8-12". But there will also be larger holdovers and they also throw a few old brood fish out in each steam. Check the Pa fish commission website for the stocking schedule and what they stick. Brookie's prefer worms, rainbows like salmon eggs. Browns attack anything.

san juan worms have worked well for me, but i've been criticized for using them for some reason. as always, it's just "match the hatch" i suppose so take a wide variety.

a small count-down rapala in gold is my go-to trout bait. size depends on stream size.

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I fish trout pretty regularly here in Iowa. We have quite a few stocked streams and lakes. Many of the suggestions are pretty spot on. If I'm catch and release fishing my go to is usually a rooster tail spinner in 1/32 and 1/16 oz sizes. Will cast well on your set up. I also have used small chunks of night crawler or kernels of canned corn with good success. Usually only use live bait when planning to keep fish. The streams here typically are somewhere between 10 and 30 feet wide with series of riffles and holes. Fish lie along cut banks and in deeper troughs. Try to stay low and cast upstream. Deep holes on our trout streams are 3-4 feet deep. These usually hold the stocked trout.

Welcome to the Forum, Knutty, It's a great place to be, and it nice to have another trout fisher on board. I have wrestled in Ames a few times. Not normally a good experience.

Knutty, that is the same size stream I loved to fish. And I agree, stay low, wear camo and keep a backing of brush, rocks, etc will help you catch more fish, even stock fish get spookier after a while.
We also fished small rooster tails. Good lures. Canned corn too!