Minnow Fishing

Fishing a small stream with plastic minnows... its a killer for large trout.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Brown
• Trout
• fishing
• minnows
• stream

[jewsychicken]

fish like a real man and use a fly rod, bitch.

[Rivrrat77]

@jewsychicken

Guess its true... haters are gonna hate. Thanks for your opinion, as worthless as it is.... I'll keep feeding them meat. The trout certainly don't seem to mind and I'm not out there to fit some "manly" mold others think I should have to fit to be able to fish well. Honestly, opinions like yours are what keeps me from even trying fly fishing.... god forbid I turn into some uppity douche who thinks fish shouldn't be caught if its not my way.

[jamiekfc10]

are all these fish wild, in our rivers in scotland they are usually stocked and just reel in like theres nothing on the end of your line. i was recently fly fishing on a loch and caught a small wild brown anout 11 inches and it fought like crazy.

[Rivrrat77]

@jamiekfc10 These are mostly wild fish. This stream is a tailwater from a dam a couple miles upstream from there so occasionally some of the stocked trout in the reservoir above wind up in the stream. You can get some pretty hefty bows occasionally and there were starting to be more tiger trout showing up as well. Sadly, whoever controls the runoff from the dam has let the flows become a trickle over the last couple years.

[Rivrrat77]

@jamiekfc10 I didn't fish it at all last summer and have heard that the weed growth in there is really taking over. When the ice cap on the reservoir thaws, they release a bunch of water (lacking in oxygen) out the bottom of the lake and it seems to kill off a bunch of the fish in the stream as well so the word is that the fishing has suffered. Used to be one of my favorite places to go... now... not real sure I'm in a hurry to go back.

[LIFalcons99]

what kind of rod and reel

[Rivrrat77]

@LIFalcons99

If I remember right, the rod was my G-Loomis 6 1/2 foot light action spinning rod and the reel is my trusty Shimano Sahara spinning reel. Sadly, I lost that rod, or at least the top half while float tubing in the mountains last summer. Bummer... it was a great rod.

[imgonnapissuoff]

why do you have to stand in the water? your like 3 feet from dry ground.

[dpreiner21]

who cares if he isnt using a fly rod... I have both, and prefer my open face real and rod like hes using.

[proanglerfisherman]

you dummy thts no minnow thts a trout

[africankiwi1]

@Rivrrat77 I fly fish and spin both great fun dont listen to kfc head up there give flyfishing a go not all flyfisherman are bad like chicken lover :-)

[Gantzer1]

Nice fish, Trout releases are devastating native minnow populations over here in Australia but they fetch a good price so the god damn fisheries keep releasing em while they complain about carp? Live Minnow fishing is the easiest way to get dinner for the night if your chasing the rainbow trout I dont know why so many people get such a hard on for saying you should only use fly fishing for that method. If its dinner its the easy way not the hard.

[sh0tgun4]

thats one big ass minnow

[brownpowerful]

is that TITO ORTIZ troutfishing?



[frank3c03]

@imgonnapissuoff to feel the nature