Trout Are Impossible To Catch?

[jimithyashford]

The thread title there is a bit of a joke expressing my frusterations. I know they aren't impossible to catch since I did catch one.

I spent about 5 hours at Bennet Spring on Saturday starting at 9am. Some might thing fishing in a stocked trout stream brimming over with thousands of fish would be cheating.....well it didn't do me much good. I fished a little pink ball powerbait thing, a brightly colored rubber jig that I fished both on top and down low, and I fished grasshoppers caught beside the road. I caught one small rainbow trout on a grasshopper, no other bites the whole time. Since one trout was too little to do anything with, I gave him to another fella I saw cleaning his catch.

The frusterating thing was that I could clearly see the trout, and I was passing my bait/lure right in front of their faces. In fact, more than once I actually hit the trout in the face with my bait and literally drug the bait across his nose, and they just wouldn't bite.

If I cast my bait right into their face and they still don't bite I don't know what else I can do. I could only have been more accurate if I cast the hook directly into their lip.

I saw plenty of other people out there with full stringers, so I dunno what they were doing different, but I just could not catch stinking trout out of water packed full of them.

[fishinwrench]

Curious how this "jig on top" method goes.

[laker67]

Contact Jerry Rapp, he is an expert in rainbarrel fishing techniques. He addressed this subject just a couple of weeks ago on this very topic.

[Corky 69]

If you want to fish Zone 3 Bait water at Bennett, use worm's are minnows , they will work, also don't use to heavy of line.

Good luck next time you go there!!!!

[jimithyashford]

Someone at the bait shop recomended lighter line to me. I didn't have any lighter line to switch out to, but I am 100% sure I saw people catching trout on fly fishing rigs with these big ultra-heavy ultra-visible orange and neon-green lines. I know they have a short header of a much thinner line, but still, Trout didn't seem to be too picky about biting at flies with a shoe-string of a line comming right up to within a foot of the fly.

[Justin Spencer]

Someone at the bait shop recomended lighter line to me. I didn't have any lighter line to switch out to, but I am 100% sure I saw people catching trout on fly fishing rigs with these big ultra-heavy ultra-visible orange and neon-green lines. I know they have a short header of a much thinner line, but still, Trout didn't seem to be too picky about biting at flies with a shoe-string of a line comming right up to within a foot of the fly.

very true, sometimes I tie directly to the orange line and if they are hungry they will still bite.

[Chief Grey Bear]

You'll have to go to a reputable smoke shop to get a quality lighter line.

[laker67]

You'll have to go to a reputable smoke shop to get a quality lighter line.

I think cigars brand floro would be a good option.

[bfishn]

You might try one of the privately owned trout farms in Missouri;

http://www.missouritrout.com/privateparks.html

The general scenario is you pay by the lb for what you catch, and there's no catch & release. It strikes many pure anglers as cheating, but if you want to have a guaranteed catch you can keep, there's no better way. It often costs less than getting skunked can too.

[Justin Spencer]

You might try one of the privately owned trout farms in Missouri;

http://www.missouritrout.com/privateparks.html

The general scenario is you pay by the lb for what you catch, and there's no catch & release. It strikes many pure anglers as cheating, but if you want to have a guaranteed catch you can keep, there's no better way. It often costs less than getting skunked can too.

I'm thinking jimi might get off real cheap, finally a positive outlook on not catching!