Trout- Part One

[ness]

So they could put carp in those pretty streams instead? Think of the savings!

Naw. The fish gotta be pretty too. Don't want no homely carp in there.

[fishinwrench]

Naw. The fish gotta be pretty too. Don't want no homely carp in there.

That's kinda what I thought.

It's gotta be a pretty fish, in a pretty place, and if there's any mud or anything else around that might get us dirty then it needs to be covered with concrete.

Dirty water is scary business! If you can't see what's in there then your taking you life into your own hands by getting close to it. Crocodiles, Sharks.....WHO KNOWS!

SHEEEZE! Trout purists are such pansies

[ozark trout fisher]

Yeah trout "purists" are kinda annoying. Honestly, if you are a true trout purist in Missouri, unless you live on the banks of the North Fork of the White or something you are gonna be miserable a lot. I spend 85% of my time chasing warmwater fish. But is there something special about that 15% that's spent trout fishing? Absolutely there is. Please don't ask me to explain it, but to me it's just somehow better. The only thing that's really close is stream smallies.

But, when I say trout fishing, I don't mean all types of trout fishing. I mean fishing for wild trout on wild streams. And yes, I am including in that definition fished that were stocked a long time ago and have become wild over time, even though that's technically incorrect. But a stocker on the blue ribbon stretch of the Eleven Point is probably acting pretty wild by the time I hook into it. But real wild, streambred trout are better, and native brookies or cutts in their home range are enough to make me travel 1000 miles and hardly think twice about doing so to catch a few 8 inch fish.

I am perfectly capable of having a good time chasing freshly stocked trout but it's a different kind of experience, little different than fishing for catfish on a warmwater pond, and basically you may as well approach it that way. Fun if you're on a pretty stream and the rest of the experience is good, but not usually worth it in its own right.

[Wayne SW/MO]

The bottom line for me is I like fishing and for me different techniques mean different challenges. Sort of like the fish is the ball and it can be played with different shapes and rules.

The smallie is the king in my book, but there is fun in a 20# carp, a mess of crappie, a trout or two, anything busting a topwater and the list goes on.

[Guest]

The bottom line for me is I like fishing and for me different techniques mean different challenges. Sort of like the fish is the ball and it can be played with different shapes and rules.

The smallie is the king in my book, but there is fun in a 20# carp, a mess of crappie, a trout or two, anything busting a topwater and the list goes on.

This.

[ness]

That's kinda what I thought.

It's gotta be a pretty fish, in a pretty place, and if there's any mud or anything else around that might get us dirty then it needs to be covered with concrete.

Dirty water is scary business! If you can't see what's in there then your taking you life into your own hands by getting close to it. Crocodiles, Sharks.....WHO KNOWS!

SHEEEZE! Trout purists are such pansies

Man, you bait slingers with your inferiority complexes all the time. Yawn.

[Mitch f]

All right, I've seen enough..... Wrench and Ness should have a "fish off" Phil will lay down the rules!

[fishinwrench]

All I see resulting from that is a terrible hangover, so let me just forfeit right now

[joeD]

Trout...

See how quickly we devolve...

Rainbow trout are Christians...

Brown trout are Lutherans...

Cutthroat trout are Episcopalians

Flyfishermen are Muslims, or Islams, or Buddhists or gay...

Baitfishermen are heathens and pagans...

Minnows caught by mistake by spin fishermen are Baptists..

A fly-fishing Muslim who catches a 6 inch rainbow trout in a little creek can be ... What?

God?

Trout Part 2 forthcoming...

[ozark trout fisher]

Trout Part 2 forthcoming...

I can hardly wait.

But seriously, I appreciate you trying to help trout anglers out of our disorder that causes us to travel 1000 miles to chase after a footlong (if that) fish. But it's really quite hopeless. Once you are afflicted, it is a chronic disorder with no available treatment. It only continues to devolve until you find yourself kneeling along the banks of Blue Spring Creek desperately trying to dangle a Hare's ear nymph in front of a 4 inch long wild rainbow and cursing at no one in particular when you hook an overhanging tree instead.