Weekend Stockers

[FishnDave]

Saturday was cloudy, intermittent rain, breezy. Had the pond all to myself. Caught 10 Rainbow Trout, 1 Largemouth Bass, 2 White Crappies.
I heard an owl in a big pine tree I was fishing under, but I couldn't spot him.

[FishnDave]

Sunday I had the park all to myself for awhile....it eventually got pretty crowded. Caught 6 Rainbows. This gives me 40 so far, of the 400 that were stocked...so I've caught 10%. The rain and wind we had has stirred up the water quite a bit. Most of the duckweed that was covering the surface in large areas disappeared, and so did most of the floating leaves (I think they just sank)....but the leaves are still falling and blowing around.

Some kids showed up and spooked an owl out of a tree. The owl flew low towards me and then passed about 20' to my left. Pretty cool.

One fish is shown 3 times in the pics below. It had cool markings, measured 14".

[laker67]

The fish with the different markings looks as if it could be an emerson strain from crystal lake hatchery.

[Johnsfolly]

Congrats on slamming those urban trout! Should get to the point that you may recognize ones that you have caught previously if you are fishing a C&R lake (I know that even in those lakes a lot are likely to get poached).

You're 37 more trout than I have for the entire year. Not a trout fishing year for us. Go sore mouth some more stockers!

[FishnDave]

Fished on Saturday for about 5.5 hours. I was thoroughly chilled by the time I left, even though it was supposedly 48 degrees. Maybe the drizzle, breeze and overcast skies prevented me from warming up...
Catching was very slow...about 1 fish every 1/2 hour...and the last fish came 2 hours after the previous! Ended up landing 2 Bluegills, 2 White Crapppies, and 12 Rainbow Trout.

These were some of the better trout. Some had pretty good kypes ...especially the middle one!

[Johnsfolly]

Nice looking fish @FishnDave!

[FishnDave]

Thanks!

Here's another.

[FishnDave]

Fished a few hours each of 3 days over the T-day holiday. Caught just 4 fish.
Thursday's fish were 2 trout. Nice ones...14" and 16".



Friday I tried a public lake for bass and crappies in the afternoon. Got skunked. What? Ouch!
Sunday was warmer than originally forecast. Tried for trout again. Caught just 2. One was really small. This was the other.

And...here's a raccoon taking his final rest on (in) a waterbed:

If you can't tell what you are looking at....you can see an ear towards the bottom, and a hind leg near the top left.

[Johnsfolly]

Even those stockers can smarten up a bit after they get pressured. You caught a couple of nice ones!

[FishnDave]

The top one was dropping eggs!