Trout fishing

[milje]

I'm not very big on trout fishing, usually just going down to the creek a mile from my house and casting a few holes with a Mepps spinner or Rooster Tail, catch a few 8-9" brookies. I fish mostly for Bass and Musky, sometimes Walleye and panfish.

So today me and my buddy who just got home (just got out of the Air Force) decide to go fishing, only thing open right now is trout. We didn't feel like hitting the creek or the small rivers in the area, so we go to the mouth of the Black River, where it goes out into Lake Superior. It's about this time that I realize that I'm not set up at all for this kind of fishing, I have one small Mepps spinner, try that for a while in a few different places, nothing. My buddy tries a few different things, not a bite. There's trout literally jumping out of the water, we were a little ways down from some rapids, water flowing not too fast, but enough to pull a lure downstream on a cast.

So.... what are trout hitting this time of year? They seemed to be hitting stuff at the surface, as they were surfacing constantly, all across the river. I'd like to go catch a few before Walleye season opens, heck I spent an extra 15 bucks for the all species license vs. a regular license, might as well use it.

 

[mkpecor]

im a big river fisher over here in washington, you just got to try every spinner you have had see what they want, try a wedding ring, panther martons, try different colors, crome, green, gold, pink,brown, black, cast it up stream and let the spinner float/tumbul past you, reel in and so on.

 

[mkpecor]

try a werm on it to. good luck.

 

[mud_bogger]

Around here if a yellow/orange with silver blade panther martin wont do the job swap over to a black/yellow with gold blade panther martin.

Seems that the blade color matters alot more than the acctual lure.

In the rivers we are casting them upstream an pulling them back through the slow spots behind rocks and also where the currents swirl together.

Vary the size of your lure as well.

 

[chico4554]

if they are everywhere, just use a net.

 

[hihoslvr]

i always liked little cleo's, I'm partial to the Orange and gold, small to med. in size. but then again, i wasn't that good of a spin tackle fisher...

 

[dranger21]

If they're hitting on the surface get yourself a flyrod. I never thought I'd like it til I tried it a few years ago but its addicting.

 

[hihoslvr]

If they're hitting on the surface get yourself a flyrod. I never thought I'd like it til I tried it a few years ago but its addicting.

x2 and that would explain them jumping

 

[donlightbody]

I swear by Panther martins. Small ones, usually a number 2, or even a 4. the black one with a silver blade on sunny days, or the brass blade when overcast. the rainbow trout colored one works great too. I mostly river and creek fish in CO and ID, they kill em all day everyday!

 

[hihoslvr]

hey, those Panther Martins do look good,

 

[Original_Ranger84]

Dynamite?

yeah x2 or x3 or whatever on the fly rod, although they are pretty strange at first compared to a regular reel.

I haven't been lake fishing in awhile we only dip net for the salmons at the mouth of the rivers (think 5' diameter nets that you stick in the water until salmons swim in them), and halibut fishing with a 100lb test line 50+ feet in in the water then haul'em up. can't wait for this season.

Good luck.

 

[rickcdewitt]

drift flys or bait past them

 

[milje]

I'd try a fly rod but it's pretty tight where I was, had to sidearm half the time with my regular rod to keep it out of the trees. Looked like the water gets deep pretty quick also for wading in and fly fishing.

I need a smaller boat for this kind of stuff....


I may have to go get a light action rod to use here, my 7' Medium St. Croix that I use for bass fishing was too stiff to cast light spinners (wouldn't have been much of a fight either, not very fun using heavier equipment than needed).

 

[Melt]

i see youre from michigan ... whats an out of state lisence cost? Will be living in wisconsin for the summer very close to the border of the pennisula ... so ill either do my fishing in WI or MI depending on lisence cost.

 

[zebz21]

in wisconsin it's $20 for a resident and $10 for the inlet trout stamp.. for non resident it is $50 for the year and the inlet is $10
more info check here
http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/cs/nonrestypes.asp