re: Rainbow trout stocking Louisiana, any experience catching?

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I’ve caught a lot in Montana and worms seem to work the best.

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I bet you got the stink eye from the dry fly elitists. I have a friend in Swan Valley Idaho with a drift boat and I fish with him at least one weekend a year on the Snake River below Palisades dam and it is open to bait fishing year round. I usually try to go in late July or early August when the terrestrials are thick and you can wear 'em out on a hopped and a dropper but I always carry a spinning rod with some inline spinners and ain't above threading a night crawler on and drifting it under a cut bank. Wear the rainbows, browns, cuthroats and cutbows out. There are guides and fly shops all over that stretch of the river....riverside mansions and resorts. Those frickers act like you've farted while fricking their sister....but 4 pound native cutthroats don't grow on trees in north Georgia...and I ain't flying to SLC and driving to Idaho to practice my fly casting bad as I need the practice.....

Some of the BREC pond trout from December

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Canned corn is supposedly the secret.

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Yep, yellow crappie powerbait worked well for us.

I keep telling myself I'm going to take my kid's out and catch some every year but never make it out. Minden is the closest location to me.

I wonder why Shreveport gets no love?

They could stock them in the "duck pond" which has ample public access.

My family used to have a lake house in North Arkansas and I've caught a ton of them over the years.

Yes, corn will work, but if I have to choose one bait to sling, I'm going with the "Egg Worm".

As others have said, light line, ultra light spinning rod, and a split shot 12 inches above a small #6 hook. Put one Berkley Power bait on the hook and slide it up to the eye of the hook. Then pinch a 1/2 inch piece of earth worm and thread on the hook. The bait now looks like a bug with a yellow or orange head and an earthworm body.

Tight line it, put it under a cork or work it slow along the bottom like a plastic worm. We used to drift the White River and just bounce it along the bottom as the boat drifted down stream, but that can't be done in a pond setting.

Nonetheless, one technique will work better than the others and go from there.

Trust me. You'll crush with an Egg Worm.

Nice Rainbow right there.

White rainbow


Caught on ultra light and inline spinner in Youngsville. Watch a guy and his son catch 3 on Berkeley garlic scent eggs

“ We used to drift the White River and just bounce it along the bottom as the boat drifted down stream”

Did the same many times.Unfortunately can’t do that anymore.This frickin water weed called didymo aka as rock snot has taken over the White River.
Can still catch trout with spinners or flies fished above it.

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Did the same many times.Unfortunately can’t do that anymore.This frickin water weed called didymo aka as rock snot has taken over the White River

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Been making this trip for the last 8 years. Majority of our fishing is drift fishing. Have not had any issue with the weeds/algae

Years ago when they stocked the pond at Fritchie Park in Slidell I caught a few fly fishing just floating a #12 royal wulff but did better slow stripping a #8 olive woolly bugger. I’m sure I could have caught them faster on spinning gear with power bait or corn but if I’m going to catch a rainbow trout I at least want to pretend like I’m doing it for real. Don’t know why they stopped stocking them around Slidell.

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Are they edible

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I have cooked them every way possible. They are terrible. I am catch and release only lol