Fishing the "B" Water - April 2009 TPO Tip of the Month

Aaron Jasper shares one of the best kept secrets in fly fishing... FISH WHERE EVERYBODY ELSE ISN'T FISHING! The best quality fish are often found where the water buffalo aren't wading and where the stocking trucks don't unload 100 LBS of competitors for food. Check it out.

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[troutpredator]

BTW There is no argument here. You are the one trying to argue :)

[colinf94404]

I am still unsure what your argument is?? I thought hatchery trout will still migrate from pool to pool through riffles. You cant be insinuating that the stockers stay in the exact same pool after being dumped are you???

[troutpredator]

In waters where hatchery fish and wild fish coexist, you'll observe that the wild fish tend to migrate out of the pools when the hatchery fish are planted. For example, you can fish the pools all winter and catch wild trout. However, when the truck comes, you aren't as successful catching wild fish in the same spots. I have caught the same fish in the pockets as in the pools. Angling pressure makes the fish migrate. All trout are animals, just like our pets and they can become conditioned.

[nauticalmile6]

pk066392, determining wild fish from stockies is easy to tell. First and foremost almost all hatchery fish are fin clipped which means the fins on those fish look rounded as if someone cut the tips off with a nail clipper. Another way to tell is how the fish look. Most hatchery fish will look beat up from the tanks they are stored in, whereas all wild fish appear extremely colorful. Wild trout also fight ten times better and they won't eat just anything that drifts or swims past them.

[pk066392]

how do you guys differentiate the wilt trout from the stockers, is it by location, look, behavior or do your hatcheries clip the adipose, just wondering. i can only guess when i get a potentially wild fish, i just dont know enough to tell

[JSG949]

@colinf94404 hatchery trout do migrate from time to time, but since they arent wild, and are raises in gentle water, they arent as energetic and do not like fast water. wild trout on the other hand are raised in fast wild waters, so they are more energetic and they like having their own spot in the fast water. and wild trout will actually also put up a much more aggressive fight

[olmage1]

this is exactly what i do when i flyfish, cause i nerver believe in dryflies for trout..

[DJANGEL1234]

he work at school 14 use to be my tacher

[KVeMAN404]

@CKC008 the top of seams (where slower water is right next to faster) and drifting the whole seam is a good place to start. good luck

[KVeMAN404]

i almost exclusivlely fish "B" water for the exact reasons you described. fly fisherman, in general, are even more lazy then the trout they are after. a little bit of a walk, or choppy water like what you are fishing in raises success rates by at least 20-30%. great video.

[CKC008]

nice video, you should make a video on where to cast and where most fish are going to be in rivers. I just started fly fishing

-thanks

[bill7920]

they will for a little while then they acclimated to the river and searching for food instead of waiting for pellets. It usually takes a few days to week or so. It all depends on the type of stream too...

[seismicrob2956]

TPO is right dude. I fish a stream in pennylvania that is stocked and has holes with pocket water between them. I catch about 75% wild fish in the pocket water and about 90% stocked fish in the holes. Also early in the year with the begginning of hatches such as bwo's in march persay the wild trout will begin feeding on the surface earlier and more regularly than the stocked trout.(just a tidbit of info for you)