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Try a REAL worm (night crawler ?).

Well, yeah Cranfield, but that wouldn't be very sporting, would it now? I may try it this weekend anyway, my wife probably wouldn't believe any story I could concoct about what happened to her goldfish.

Do ya'll trout fish with earthworms over there? Make you want to throw the fly rod away. 'Merican trout sure seem to love them anyway.

Ken, bass fishing is going to be tough this time of year. Even if you don't like them, soft plastics are your best bet this time of year. The bass are near dormant and won't chase a bait. You have to put it in their house, leave it there, and make them bite. If you get a nice warm sunny calm day, they'll move up into the shallows to sun, and you can catch them. But on these cold dreary days, you gotta dig um out.

:idea: Chartruese hand grenade!!!!

Ken, I wouldn,t use anything but an artificial (fur/feather,no metal/plastic/rubber etc) for freshwater trout.

Do you class bass as a "game fish", in the same category as trout ?

I use any method rod and line, to catch "non-game" fish.

Bass= GAME FISH

Trout= Bait for GAME FISH

Never have understood the esteem that many people have for freshwater trout. IMHO an inferior fish on the table and as easy to catch as any fish I have ever targeted.

I think it's because freshwater trout is all some people have to fish for. I do love chasin them Bass!

Salmon and trout are the traditional freshwater "game" fish wherever you go.
Over here, its primarily because they are about the only thing you can eat, from freshwater (with the exception of eels and pike and nobody eats pike).

I think "tradition" is the word here, which is why I would only pursue trout with a fly rod.
With salmon it is "traditional" at times in the season, to use worms,prawns,shrimp and metal lures, as well as flies.

I think fly fishing is a sport in itself.
Catching anything on a fly is a bonus.

The nearest freshwater trout to here is about 150miles.

Dewey, they have had some success stocking trout at Callaway Gardens. I think they die out of the ponds in the summer but I believe they may survive the summer in a few well shaded creeks. We are at the "Southern Terminus" of the Appallachins.

BTW Cranfield I shouldn't knock anybodies fish. I have had some great times trout fishing. I used to spend a lot of time at my Grandmother's house in North Georgia, my uncle had a little stream that was loaded with native brown trout and stocked rainbows. They were a lot of fun to catch. I might not hold trout in such low regard as table fare if my Grandmother had not been such a lousy cook.

I didn't know about the trout at Calloway.
I figured the Chatahoochee near Atlanta would be the closest place.

It's 137mi from Sylvester to Pine Mountain.

Other peoples fish and methods to catch them, fascinate me.
With the possible exception of bow fishing and speargun fishing.
I don,t criticise the people that do it, but its not something I want to try (a bit like golf ).

A purist view would be, if you are catching for food, any method goes, but if you are catching for sport, then choose the most sporting way.

I,m very suprised that it gets too hot for rainbow trout in Sth Ga or Nth Fla.
I,m sure someone posted once about a commercial rainbow trout lake in Nth Fla somewhere.

The only commercial rainbow operations that I know of stock large fingerlings, feed the hell out of them for a few months and harvest them with seines in the spring before the water gets too warm.