Fly Fishin’

Great trout fishing baits are the primary requirements for trout fishing. However, there are several kinds of baits to choose from, and selecting the best bait to use is a complicated issue. Most trout are picky. Often times, they are unpredictable in their tastes. They may like one kind of bait today and another kind for the next day. To be more successful in trout fishing, wide variety of bait to try will be helpful. There are also factors that you may consider in knowing how and what the trout eats. These factors includes: water and weather temperature for that day, species of trout and other factors.

You may also ask some key informants like the people who also fish trout in the same area or someone in charged in the place you are fishing at, to get some information about what kinds of bait do fishes enjoy in a specific day. But before anything else, keep in mind that the most important thing to do is go to the area prepared and make sure to bring several kinds of bait with you. So that, if one kind of bait did not work fine, you may try another kind of bait until you found the right bait to use.

One of the best bait options is worm, but there are many different types and sizes of worms. An example of one of best worm to use as bait is the Night crawler. Trout usually like these types of worms. Night crawler worms are easy to get, have good weight and are easy to use. Other types of worms are water worms and Hellgamites. These are also often used by many trout fishers but are usually difficult to get. Most regular worms, on the other hand are harder to cast and too small. Sometimes, small minnow worms are also good to use as live baits but it depends on the type of trout and the season.

Choose bait depending on the type of trout that you want to catch. Be sure that you know how to hook them properly, especially when you are using live baits. You can try these additional tips for using baits in trout fishing:

1. Something orange in color is useful as bait.

2. Power bait is also useful like the yellow corn types.

3. Put enough bait to cover the hook.

4. Night crawler in collar hook is advisable with marshmallow straightly above the hook on the line.

5. Pink and salmon eggs are also advisable.

There are many several different types of bait to use in fishing trout. Moreover, there are also several different types of fishing to practice. These are, streamers, egg and bead, top water mousing and dry flies.

The kind of the trout fishing bait that you are using is greatly affected by the type of technique you use in trout fishing. Keep in mind that being flexible is an advantage. Be capable of using different available option to achieve more success in your trout fishing endevours.



By: Abhishek Agarwal

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Southern California has a vast array of streams running through its mountains which are stocked regularly with trout during the cooler months. Although we will be concerning ourselves mainly with these ‘stocked’ fish, many of these streams also contain ‘native’ trout which may be caught year round. In this article, we will be discussing the equipment and tackle needed to catch these sometimes elusive fish.

Before you can even begin, you will need a rod and reel (Although you could just as easily use something as simple as a stick with fishing line and a hook?). Ultra-light tackle is preferable, as it is smaller, lighter and more sensitive than its normal (or heavy duty) counter parts. Fishing line comes in many pound (lb.) test ratings, but 2 to 4 lbs. test is best for stream fishing as it is of a small diameter which makes it harder for the fishes to see underwater. This light line is also ok since most of the fish caught will be less than one pound. Many anglers find that a fly fishing rig works well too, but unless you have experience fly fishing it can be a daunting task on the small mountain streams.

The only other things we will need to begin are hooks, weights, and bait. For hooks, treble hooks in the 14 – 16 range work best for these smaller trout, and cheese baits stay on these best. There are also small salmon egg hooks if you chose to us salmon eggs as bait, but you can also just put 3 eggs on one hook and save from having 2 types of hooks. For weight, small lead ‘split-shot’ work best as you can add and remove them as needed. Split-shot come in many sizes, but it is sometimes easier to get the smaller and use what is needed than the larger and not be able to put the amount weight you want. Lastly we will need some sort of bait (although spinner bait and spoons can be used, bait is easier in these small streams). Bait can be commercially packaged salmon eggs, cheeses and other so called trout baits, but what I personally found to work best is plain old Velveeta cheese. You may also want to try corn, worms, live bugs or dry flies– the choice is yours.

Now for the fishing part, almost - but if you are 16 years of age or older, you will need to purchase a fishing license for a small fee (this helps to pay for the fish we are trying to catch). All that is left now is to find one of the many streams that are stocked, find a good fishin’ hole and catch a few trout for dinner.

In the next part, we will cover some actual techniques for fishing the streams of the mountains of Southern California.



By: Jonathan Parker

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