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Catching rainbow trout

Posted on 1/19/19 at 2:55 pm
Posted by SouthernImmigrant
NELA
Member since Jul 2018
624 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 2:55 pm
Spinoff to the LDWF dropping 400 lbs of trout into Kiroli park.
Fished the park a lot as a kid/teenager for bass and perch, never in my life caught a rainbow trout though.
I saw sweet corn on a small hook may work?
Any other little tricks?
5 fish limit and they look small but I would love to try one in a skillet with lemon juice, recs on cooking a few?
Posted by TimeOutdoors
LA
Member since Sep 2014
13073 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 2:59 pm to
There is a small lake here that is stocked every winter. Pick up the salmon eggs paste and make small balls with it.
Posted by Head1
Member since Dec 2009
407 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 3:41 pm to
I fished a mountain lake in the Cascades back in 2013. We used power bait pellets and I couldn’t believe they worked. That’s all I got for ya. Good luck
Posted by Hog Zealot
On the Flats
Member since Mar 2012
1739 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 3:57 pm to
Can of corn will work just fine. Just make sure it’s not cream corn. Landed many trout on the White River as a boy. Split shot about a foot up and let it fly.
This post was edited on 1/19/19 at 3:58 pm
Posted by Columbia
Land of the Yuppies
Member since Mar 2016
3212 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 4:10 pm to
Tight line with power bait eggs and wax worm. Easiest fish to catch on the planet
Posted by Lonnie Utah
Utah!
Member since Jul 2012
31698 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 5:42 pm to
Small nightcrawlers/earthworms you can dig from your yard.
Posted by sta4ever
Member since Aug 2014
17367 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 6:20 pm to
Colored marshmallows work too from what I’ve heard. They stocked a pond down here with Rainbow Trout and that’s what people have been using. I’d give it a try and see what happens
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
40461 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 6:20 pm to
Split shot about 12” up the line
#8 bait holder hook
1 Power egg on first up to the eye. Chartreuse or pink.
1/2” of earthworm threaded on the rest of the hook.

Together it looks like a grub or something. They’ll eat it.

Tight line it mainly. I’ll pull up and check it every once in a while and slowly work it in.
Posted by Lonnie Utah
Utah!
Member since Jul 2012
31698 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 6:22 pm to
Size 22 zebra midge.
Posted by NewIberiaHaircut
Lafayette
Member since May 2013
12282 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 7:05 pm to
They just stocked a pond near me as well. I have no clue how to catch them. Got them to chase some soft plastics used for bass but they would never bite. Going to have to try some of these suggestions.
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
60179 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 10:32 pm to
Everything posted here is spot on...I have caught trout on all of the baits listed. Just basically fish them like you are tight lining for catfish, but use corn, fish eggs, or night crawlers and you will catch any rainbow that passes the bait.

FWIW, they are edible, but not as good as the southern fish that you are probably used to eating...
Posted by I B Freeman
Member since Oct 2009
27843 posts
Posted on 1/19/19 at 10:34 pm to
I love rainbow trout broiled or fried in bacon grease
Posted by LSUintheNW
At your mom’s house
Member since Aug 2009
36770 posts
Posted on 1/20/19 at 8:32 am to
quote:

I couldn’t believe they worked


Fish are stupid.
Posted by BIG Texan
Texas
Member since Jun 2012
1711 posts
Posted on 1/20/19 at 12:41 pm to
Try a bait called Trout Magnet, need 2 ld test line and fish it four inches off the bottom slowly reeled in, hot pink or chartuce . I like to grill them indirect w butter chili lime sauce basted.whole and skin on.


Posted by Benjamin Ryan
Hodges
Member since Aug 2018
301 posts
Posted on 1/20/19 at 1:59 pm to
Don't use corn. It kills the ones that get away. They can't digest it.

Powerbait is the answer. Slays them.
Posted by AubieALUMdvm
Member since Oct 2011
11713 posts
Posted on 1/20/19 at 2:31 pm to
quote:

Don't use corn. It kills the ones that get away. They can't digest it.



A common saying but from the only study I'm aware if it is a myth.

Article on a 1992 study where a PA state biologist confirmed no mortality due to corn

They can't digest it very well though. Just passes right through.
Posted by SneakyWaff1es
Member since Nov 2012
4105 posts
Posted on 1/20/19 at 3:09 pm to
Farmed trout doesn't taste the same. It tastes okay but wild trout is truly delicious.
Posted by Benjamin Ryan
Hodges
Member since Aug 2018
301 posts
Posted on 1/20/19 at 3:29 pm to
I own a lot of trout water. Stream, river, and pond. I wish I had a dollar for every belly up trout that we have necropsied that had a bunch of corn stuck in it.
Posted by AubieALUMdvm
Member since Oct 2011
11713 posts
Posted on 1/20/19 at 3:52 pm to
I understand and it may be true. I'm just saying that from the only study in which there was a control group to compare them it was shown to not increase mortality. Perhaps it's the type of corn?
Posted by DownSouthJukin
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Member since Jan 2014
30953 posts
Posted on 1/20/19 at 5:44 pm to
Frozen boiled shrimp from Wal-Mart. Pinch a piece off, put it on a trout hook, profit.
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