r/troutfishing

Bottom fish is a native rainbow and the other ones are cutbow hybrid stocker trout

before I get the comments, I took it home and ate it. Bunch of Karen’s on this telling me not to touch the trout dry handed out of water. been trout fishing since I was able to hold a rod in my hand. I know how to handle a trout. 🙃 just sharing.

I personaly just Grill them or smoke them

Green peter dam has been producing limits

Hello! Just wanted to share some of my favorite catches from my first two months of fly fishing. I still have a very hard time casting, but I’m happy to say I’ve managed to catch some beautiful trout along the way.

Honestly, I think the biggest reason I’ve been able to catch these fish is because of my hiking and backpacking background. I’ve been able to revisit some of the alpine lakes I’d explored before I ever started fishing, which has definitely given me a head start on finding some great spots.

Hope y’all like these catches.

I've been on this sub for a couple months now and there are a lot of posts about what lures works best for trout. It seems like there is one or two a week. I thought I would share what works best for me, kind of a crash course for a novice. Sorry for the long read if you aren't interested. I pretty much have only fished Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, but I have fished a ton of water in those states for 25 years. Major rivers to tiny creeks and everything in between. The Panther Martin is by far the best lure to catch trout in this region. The Countdown Rapala is awesome on the Green River below Flaming Gorge, but I haven't had much luck with them anywhere else except some lakes and sometimes right below Gray Reef in Wyoming. Thomas Cyclones or Buoyants have done me well on the Bighorn River near Thermopolis, but once again, haven't had much luck anywhere else. I just flat out don't have success with Mepps or Rooster Tails. I've also tried casting bubbles with flies but have not tried it much or had much luck. For PM's, I almost always use gold, either all gold or gold blade and black body. The rainbow trout color has become my second go to lure. Silver is good most of the time too. I've had good luck with a #9 orange blade and yellow body on the Miracle Mile, but no where else really. The (what I call) brown trout color (brown with black and red spots) would be my second choice on small mountain streams and creeks. I always thought it was brown trout color until I went on their website and learned it is actually their brook trout color. As far as sizes, if I'm fishing medium to large rivers, I'm almost always fishing #9's. If I start catching vegetation I will go down to #6's. Small to medium streams and creeks I'm using #6's and #4's, depending on the depth. #2's are hard to fish for me, they just aren't accurate at hitting a hole unless it is dead calm and you have no cover behind you where you are casting. If anything I will drift a #2 in a tiny creek and entice some bites. I almost always fish PM's casting angled upstream. A high majority of the fish I catch are on the swing. Big rivers or fast water, it is pretty hard to cast downstream unless you can find some slack water. Small creeks you can have good success casting downstream. I hope this helps a lot of people. I am a trout fishing nut when it comes to fishing in beautiful country or beautiful water. I don't have much desire to catch stockers out of a pond. I just recently got two fly rods from my dad so I'll be giving those a go more often in the future, but my heart is with the Panther Martin. I added a pic of what I use. I'm running a little low on a few, mainly #6 gold. I just keep that box in my backpack while fishing so they are easily accessible. I had to add a couple of fish pics too since most everyone loves fish pics. Both are my personal bests, a 25" rainbow last year in Wyoming and a 19" brown this year in Utah. Just this year I introduced my two oldest boys to river fishing for trout. I've tried to keep them away from it while the rivers are high but this year everything was safe enough in my mind for them to fish. In their first year doing it they've already bested me for personal best brown trout, each catching a 20 incher. They are hooked for life now!

Have a hard time identifying these when they’re small

I’m really proud of myself and I wanted to show it off! 1/6 oz pro series bright green rooster tail. 🥳

I hit up the North Fork tailwater with my brother for the first time since my Dad passed away last year. His family is from there and I practically grew up on the river. The White and North Fork is where I have all the best memories of my Dad and he would have been super excited about this fish. Thought I should hit it up since I’m about to move to thE PNW and won’t be back for a while, glad I did! Caught on a keitech easy shiner and the first fish on my new St. Croix spinning rod. It was a good day.

So excited as you can tell from the length of my video

Hey guys, hoping you guys can help with figuring this out. Fishing today in a trout lake, central MN, not 100% on water temp, but getting into the kayak it didnt feel very cool. This is the only picture I ended up taking of the trout, but this was one of 4 that we caught that looked like this. (We didn't keep any of these ones, but kept a few others that looked fine.)

Bellies were red/inflamed, seemed like they were sluffing some slime/scales off while getting them off the hooks. The one in the picture obviously has some predator marks on the back, but the others where much more pronounced in the redness/infection.

Any ideas? We were thinking possibly columnaris? I am debating reaching out to the DNR, simply because this is the first we've ever seen the trout present like this in this lake.

Nice colors on some of these little brookies

Very peaceful morning on the creek.

Took a trip to the Mammoth area this past week and my buddy and I caught a total of 15 within a few days. Best fish tacos of my life. Can’t wait to go back.