St. Louis Winter Trout

[trouty mouth]

It's that time of the year. Last week we got a stocking of trout around the city/county. 

I hit up Jefferson Lake on Sunday and had a pretty good time. Jefferson Lake got stocked with 3500 trout. They were biting on what you'd expect, jigs, jigs under floats, inline spinners and small spoons. 

I think I pulled in about 20 or so fish in 2 or 3 hours all standing in the same spot. No pictures -- the fish were too lively and didn't want to pose (they looked like stocker rainbows complete with missing fins and scraped up noses)

There was a pretty good crowd around the whole lake. I did see quite a few lawn chairs set up, but nobody was sitting on a cooler so I'm thinking there's still about 3500 in there for now. . . 

I hope that the trout parks winter fishing will get a healthy stocking too. I'm planning on hitting that next weekend.

[Toseythecat]

Union City lake. Lots of action, some nice sized ones too.