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Post by Sunshine on Mar 29, 2008 8:02:21 GMT -5
how many of you guys go and if you do, are they stocked or are you fishing for native trout? what kind of bait do you successfully use?
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Post by samuelhasguns on Mar 29, 2008 9:50:26 GMT -5
Scansy is in west Pa. His season started today. I have to wait till the 15 of April I think. But I did buy my licence already.
Most stocked trout here. Very few native trout around anymore. Red worms in the creek and power bait works in the lakes.
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 29, 2008 11:11:54 GMT -5
hmmm.. you know alot about scansy all of a sudden, you 2 timin Lou? ;D
what kinda powerbait?
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Post by samuelhasguns on Mar 29, 2008 11:40:59 GMT -5
Lou, is in his own little world. I got sick of him sniff paint all day ;D Scansy is just whipped by his women.
I have good luck with yellow powerbait. Trust me I tried them all, rainbow, green, black, purple, blue, orange, pink, etc.
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 29, 2008 12:45:57 GMT -5
so you dumped both Lou and scansy...i see youre still hangin on to Huck though? ;D
yellow huh? i wonder if the trout here wouldlike the same colors? im not being funny, maybe if i get to the lake where they stockthem ill try it.
do you have all stocked trout there? we have some natives here in certain parts of the state, east of where i am towards the mountains.
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Post by samuelhasguns on Mar 29, 2008 15:30:07 GMT -5
I think trout are trout, no matter where there from
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Post by Earl8656 on Mar 29, 2008 15:46:09 GMT -5
Haven't been for a few years, but the locals use everything from nightcrawlers, meal worms, red wigglers, salmon eggs, yellow corn,minnows and powerbait. Makes no difference somedays, and then others they will only hit one of the above for natives it's hard to beat minnows, with nightcrawlers coming in second.
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 29, 2008 16:17:10 GMT -5
I think trout are trout, no matter where there from yes , but isnt it more satisfying catching a wild trout with all his instincts intact, than one that was bred and raised in captivity? catching Hatchery fish are kinda the same as hunting a fenced hunt, imo, they really dont have the survival skills to elude a fisherman for long., in most cases.
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Post by tctrppr on Mar 29, 2008 17:02:50 GMT -5
I think trout are trout, no matter where there from Gotta respectfully disagree. Catch a hatchery-raised trout and fillet him. The meat is white. Catch a native WV brookie or brown and fillet him. The meat has an orange cast to it, is firmer, and has a distinctly different taste to it. I'm sure it's diet related. The hatchery trout are fed strictly pellet food( probably contains some type of growth-enhancer ). The natives eat whatever they can forage for.
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Post by spade on Mar 29, 2008 17:10:39 GMT -5
Mostly fish for stocked rainbow trout as the waters get to warm here for native species to survive in the rivers. We do have some in cold water lakes that were stocked 4 or 5 years ago, and have been spawing on there own.
When the DNR stock here they are put in at least 30 days ahead of season opening to allow them to dispirse up or down stream, and same in the lakes.
I normally use a fly rod, 7 ft or so, medium action, with a weighted line in the spring with artifical midges, during the summer and fall during the hatch of mayflys always use a floating line with a mayfly.
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 29, 2008 18:02:10 GMT -5
here they stock periodically from Jan to May. then they stock 2 weeks in the fall. theres no season so people line the banks and fish for em basically soon as they hit the water out of the truck. not much sport in that , IMO.
its almost so bad that if you dont follow the truck you dont catch fish.
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Post by frshwtr on Mar 29, 2008 23:40:28 GMT -5
stream fishing; rigged minnows, yellow corn, worms. fishing in dams or ponds mostly power bait in yellow, pink, white and chartruse fished with a sliding sinker for casting distance. last year when the water warmed up in the dams i used a ice fly with wax worm about two foot below a small bobber. i keep track of how many i catch and what by species but i dont kill all i catch. i dont have a use for all those trout.
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Post by scansy on Apr 8, 2008 3:31:06 GMT -5
Couple of things - Sammy, I'm from western pa originally, but living in the eastern part of the state now. Sunny, sammy is not my type. He might be your type, but not mine. I do a fair amount of trout fishing - or at least I try to. Where I'm at, it's almost exlusively stocked - although there is one place with a native brown population that is good. It's catch and release. I also like to fish Spring Creek in Center County - native browns there. I release almost everything I catch - hatchery fish don't taste good anyway and the natives are just two few and far between to keep. I do fish for native brookies in the mountains around our camp - lots of them up there if you know where to go, but they aren't very big - a 10" native brookie is a whopper. But they are fun in a different way - you gotta get off the roads to get them. Fish almost exclusively minnows and/or spinners in streams. We rig the minnows - thread them with a needle. Some of the spots we fish are good smallmouth streams too - they like the minnows too. Minnows on the larger streams/rivers, spinners on the smaller usually. I belong to a local sportsmans club - here's the link - www.wcfgwa.org/ - we have basically adopted a local stream and raise trout through an agreement with the PA Fish Commission. We get fry from them in July and feed them to stock in the spring. The food they get is the same as the stuff the state uses in their hatcherys - and it ain't natural. Sure does make them grow fast though. We stock this stream, do stream improvements, pick up trash on the roadway and put on kids "derbys" - we skip feeding for a day, stock heavy the night before in a few of the really good holes and it's kids 14 and under only (with parents help for the younger ones). We actually get kids who catch their first fish there - sometimes the parents don't even know how to fish - we have a few loaner rods and one of us "experts" will help if they really are clueless. It's almost impossible for the kids not to catch at least one. We also give out hot dogs, chips, drinks - and then we have prizes donated by local stores. I also just realized I used "native" when talking about browns above - but shoud have used "wild" since browns aren't native to north america.
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Post by scansy on May 5, 2008 11:13:17 GMT -5
Did really well this weenend at camp. Caught a dozen on Saturday morning. Then Saturday afternoon it was slow. But then it started raining the fish turned on. Me and my dad caught 30+ in about an hour and a half - the harder it rained, the harder they hit.
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Post by samuelhasguns on May 5, 2008 20:47:36 GMT -5
Yep, Rain usually results in a feeding frenzy for fish..
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Post by Sunshine on May 6, 2008 6:13:03 GMT -5
is there a catch limit for you guys? its 6 here.
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Post by samuelhasguns on May 6, 2008 6:18:23 GMT -5
six here too.
But, you cant take your limit home. Then come back and catch six more. (everyone does it lol)
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Post by Sunshine on May 6, 2008 6:23:01 GMT -5
shoot with gas prices the wya they are thats get expensive. just cause everyone does it dont make it right .. you sound like my 16 yr old daughter..."everyone does it" lol
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Post by scansy on May 6, 2008 7:30:11 GMT -5
Sammy, you may want to check the regs - the limit is 5 in PA. Of course, if you really fished, you would probably know that. And I don't run back and forth catching fish and throwing them in the freezer. That's a lousy thing to do and "everyone does it" is a weak argument for doing it. Sheesh. Sunny, the limit is 5 - but that's a harvest limit, not a catch limit. If you are releasing them unharmed, they don't count against the limit.
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Post by Earl8656 on May 6, 2008 7:35:54 GMT -5
Scansy, sounds like ya'll are doing a fantastic job with the stream adoption and the kids day. We have a kids day here also, but there are none of the frills you mentioned. Just a section of the stream that is designated for kids only. Great job.
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Post by samuelhasguns on May 6, 2008 8:47:40 GMT -5
five, that's what I meant to say. ;D I was just making sure you were paying attention
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Post by Sunshine on May 6, 2008 18:45:44 GMT -5
Sammy, you may want to check the regs - the limit is 5 in PA. Of course, if you really fished, you would probably know that. And I don't run back and forth catching fish and throwing them in the freezer. That's a lousy thing to do and "everyone does it" is a weak argument for doing it. Sheesh. Sunny, the limit is 5 - but that's a harvest limit, not a catch limit. If you are releasing them unharmed, they don't count against the limit. dam, he dont fish neither?? ;D
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Post by samuelhasguns on May 6, 2008 20:48:45 GMT -5
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Post by Sunshine on May 7, 2008 6:36:19 GMT -5
;D
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Post by scansy on May 7, 2008 19:35:12 GMT -5
Sunny - he talks a lot about fishing and doesn't do it. He talks a lot about trapping and doesn't do that either. And there is one other thing he talks about a lot.......... can you guess....... he probably doesn't do it at all either.......
Sex.
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Post by Earl8656 on May 7, 2008 19:40:14 GMT -5
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Post by Sunshine on May 8, 2008 5:50:04 GMT -5
Sunny - he talks a lot about fishing and doesn't do it. He talks a lot about trapping and doesn't do that either. And there is one other thing he talks about a lot.......... can you guess....... he probably doesn't do it at all either....... Sex. in Sama defense(and i cant believe im defending him) i talk alot about sex too and i aint doin it either. kinda like ya gotta keep it currnt in your mind or ya might forget. ;D and following that theory, i bet Huck hasnt "gotten Busy" since he had hair on his head.
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Post by samuelhasguns on May 8, 2008 5:53:54 GMT -5
LMAO I fish. I hunt. And I have sex. So don't worry about it. I am perfectly normal.
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Post by Sunshine on May 8, 2008 6:01:51 GMT -5
thats perfectly scary to consider. notice he didnt say he trapped? ;D
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Post by scansy on May 8, 2008 6:54:19 GMT -5
Sunny - he talks a lot about fishing and doesn't do it. He talks a lot about trapping and doesn't do that either. And there is one other thing he talks about a lot.......... can you guess....... he probably doesn't do it at all either....... Sex. in Sama defense(and i cant believe im defending him) i talk alot about sex too and i aint doin it either. kinda like ya gotta keep it currnt in your mind or ya might forget. ;D and following that theory, i bet Huck hasnt "gotten Busy" since he had hair on his head. Well - if you ain't having sex - and sammy ain't having sex - and neither of you is married .......... Is it just me, or is there an obvious solution to the problem?
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