Any word on Urban trout stocking?

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4 minutes ago, JestersHK said:

Just got back,  Hooked 3 landed 2 on a white rooster tail.  Fish were biting good for my coworker as well.  He hooked 5 or 6 on a small spoon.  MDC said they put 500 in this particular lake.  This will be a nice little spot this winter to get away for a bit here or there when work allows.

Not a bad lunch break at all and the weather is beautiful out there today.

Is it a C&R lake? 

[JestersHK]

Yes the Wild Acres park is C&R until Jan. 31st.  Feb. 1st you are allowed 4 keepers.  According to their park website this little pond is spring fed too.  There's a few areas where the water was bubbling up and a fountain towards the center where the fish were holding.  About 1/4 of the lake was covered in muck, and you had to cast out over quite a bit of water grass and weeds, but nothing unmanageable.  Nice little park which once I got there I remembered fishing there with my dad when I was just a little kid.

[mjk86]

4 hours ago, Smalliebigs said:

The Oil trout or Urban program as some of you call it is some of the lamest fishing to be had. You are really trolling the lowest level of fishing that Missouri has to offer if you go do this. Stocking non native fish in ponds to be skewered and caught and then the dweebs that nail them let them roll around on the bank while they try to get a hook out only to release the poor bastard trout back into some pcb and street oil runoff laced city pond is just as pathetic as it gets. I saw some old dude sitting in a chair at Jefferson lake just catching one after another on powerbait bullshit and he would step on the trout to yank the hook and then throw them back???

 

     This is the weakest form of fishing ever......go out to a stream or river and do a float or wade, observe some wildlife, go catch some bass in their natural setting.....quit falsely stroking your fishing ego by catching some oil trout and thinking you're Virgil Ward.

Totally unnecessary, and tasteless.  A real show of class.  What else constitutes "weak fishing?" Just for fun.  Panfish?  live bait? children fishing?  all forms of weak fishing im guessing?    Nobody would know what a fool you are if you just posted fishing reports.

[mjk86]

Regarding the post, I was fishing jefferson lake yesterday and today on my lunch break (bass have been biting well on topwater, and roadrunners) and saw quite a few guys out with fly fishing gear fishing for what i can only assume are trout.  I think the urban trout fishing program is pretty cool...i dont see how anyone could bring themselves to eat a trout...i would (and do) eat bass before id ever touch a trout, so it doesnt interest me, but for those who do, its a fun hobby close to home.

[Haris122]

Suson too got stocked yesterday, in case anyone cared.

I agree that winter trout fishing isn't as fair or wild as river or lake fishing, but if you're short on time, and there's a stocked park close, at least there's some good chance of getting some action. Later on when it gets colder, it's going to be even more of a crucial option. But even now it's fun to catch them. It's not the most fair form of fishing, and essentially they got no way out of dying one way or another, but while they're there, even they get tricky to catch after a few days of serious pressure that follows each stocking. There's been many days I haven't seen anyone catch much even though there were plenty of people trying. On top of eating one from time to time, I also like seeing them. Think they're pretty cool fish, and going all the way down to Meramec springs or further, is not nearly as much an option as going to a local park. Most of the time I let the ones I catch go anyways even at the catch and keep lakes.

[Al Agnew]

There's good and bad like most things. I would never fish for them, but I have access to lots of other angling in the winter. If you gotta have a fishing fix and that's close, at least they are active when most "real" species aren't likely to bite. 

[Johnsfolly]

I have fished and caught fish in wild trout streams here in MO, in PA, and Wyoming, but also in farm pond or drainage ditches. Some the best Oscar fishing that I have experienced was in a drainage ditch in Florida. I like to catch fish or attempt to catch fish wherever I am. I don't live in the Ozarks next to a trout or smallie stream. So I do enjoy going out and catching trout in the urban lakes. I'm looking forward to fishing several new urban lakes this winter just for the change of scenery. Also my daughter loves to fish for trout through the ice.

[Smalliebigs]

"Just remember Scott that the more people there are at the urban fishing lakes the less people there are out there on the river with you and your ego."........thank god!!!!!!!! 

 

    have fun with the non native garbage fish.....I'll be out on the river with my ego and the fun fish

[Blazerman]

I agree. it is a simple way to get a fishing fix. I sometimes work at Weldon Springs and it is a great after work thing when the weather gets cold and nothing else will bite.

[Smalliebigs]

 

So i guess Hybrid's in the Meramec are a native species? 

Stripers allegedly are not native to the Mississippi but, I don't buy that and Whites are native and they cruise up from the Mississippi and make Hybrids.......so I would say yes......the MDC would say different though I think??....The MDC says Hybrids don't reproduce which would mean there is a dung ton of stripers out there spreading some milk??? At least the Hybrids  are half  native and actually born on a Missouri  waterway.