Trout Season

Cool! I've been a fly rodder since about ten yr old; you catch them fly rodding?

We don't have any native trout around here, a few stocked rainbows here and there but I've never caught any of them. I've caught bookoo panfish and bass though.

I haven't been real fond of eating trout, how do you cook your trout?

 

Can I wait until the ice goes off first? :laugh: The creeks that are clear are in full run from the snow melt. We still have a few weeks to go. I have two simple rules: Never fish in a coat. Never hunt in shirtsleeves. It help me keep my seasons straight.:wavey:

 

Padre, do you fly rod for the trout?

 

If you try that.....early in the season w/stock fish, I doubt youd catch any. Better to go to a fish hatchery & get some pellets. Padre should have some great fishing (if its trout) at any of those finger lakes.....Ive been wanting to get up there myself for a long time.

 

Not with mittens on. :tongue3: I don't fly fish. It's funny that I can flip a bass jig into a milk bucket on a windy day but can't get the hang of the fly rod. I'm going to wait until I retire and take the time to learn the proper technique. A friend of mine just retired from teaching school. He's going to build rods and says he has one planned for me.

They're too far away. I can get to one of the best trout fisheries in the state in a matter of minutes. Folks come from all over the country to fish the West Canada Creek. The West Canada watershed is made up of thousands of small brooks and streams that come out of the Adirondacks. Some of those creeks are devoid of any fish. DEC stocks upstream every year. Native fish are few and far between.

 

Had a deacon who missed church one Sunday a few years back. Monday morning he comes down the driveway in his car and I stepped out on the back porch to greet him.

"Sorry for missing church yesterday," he says, "but the brother-in-law was in and the other brother-in-law stopped by and the next thing I know we're in Bill's truck heading north."

Sammy opened the trunk of his car and pulled out a platter full of native browns. There had to be almost 30 of them all around 6-8 inches. It didn't take long for me to figure out that Sammy and the boys had been hitting a lot of those little brooks in the Watershed. Some of those brooks ain't but 2-3 feet wide and lined with brush and overhangs. Sammy used a short rod made for icefishing and a light Roostertail.

Yummy!

 

Cool! Congrats, nice catch! Makes my mouth water, I'm envious! Thanks for sharing.

 

So you are up by the Atarondaks (sic)?