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  • satx78247

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    Friends,

    For those of our members who fish, the TP&WD is busily stocking MANY urban/suburban lakes and ponds with RAINBOW TROUT in GOOD sizes.
    (Here in SATX, MILLER'S POND & SOUTHSIDE LION'S CLUB LAKE are heavily stocked each Saturday.)

    Every licensed fisherman can take FIVE trout home every day.

    Addenda: Both SATX lakes have bass & channel cats (to 10+ pounds), too.

    yours, satx
     
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    Farm raised and fed out then dumped in a lake so you can catch them
    Yummy
     
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    To each his own.

    I'd rather wade fish for Speckled Trout, Red fish, and Flounder, chunking spoons or top waters or some form of jelly.

    Canned fish catching just isn't for me.....
     

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    Gunz are icky.
    The stocked rainbows are fun to catch with the proper tackle. Think itty bitty ultra ultralight
    They ain’t bad baked on an open grill with some butter and pepper.
    I normally fish saltwater but these are a nice change.
     

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    To each his own.

    I'd rather wade fish for Speckled Trout, Red fish, and Flounder, chunking spoons or top waters or some form of jelly.

    Canned fish catching just isn't for me.....

    Mowingmaniac,

    You are perfectly welcome to your opinion. - I love to fish for Specks, Bull Reds & Flatties, too BUT especially if one lives FAR from saltwater (like in the Panhandle, Far West TX or NETX, for example), Rainbows on a light fly-rod or on an UL spinning rig are FUN to play with, too.
    (In my case, I like my crappie casting rig, i.e., a 9.5ft fly-rod blank fitted with casting-rod guides, a miniature revolving spool reel & 4# test mono, for fish up to 6-8#.)

    Also, when my 11YO niece gets here for her Christmas school holiday next week, I suspect that we will head to Southside Lions Club Park for some FUN.

    yours, satx
     
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    Mowingmaniac 24/7

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    I used to regularly chunk a 1/8 oz. gold, weedless, Johnson Sprite spoon. The old saw, big lure, big fish my eye......

    Using a Shimano Curado baitcaster with 12 lb test mono, I was only able to cast with a certain pendulum swing rather than a standard cast (and not terribly far either) with a good wind behind me and man oh man would I ever catch big Reds. Oh, gotta use a 'slow' retrieve......

    Port Mansfield was my absolute favorite place to wade fish for the Texas Big 3.
     
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    Moonpie

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    Gunz are icky.
    Well I love to avoid a good learning curve...

    ...what preferred rod and reel?

    I use a St.Croix Avid AS56ULF2 spinning rod w/ a Shimano Sedona 500FD spinning reel.
    2lb test mono.
    If its windy you'll want to clip on a split shot weight about 18" above the lure.
    Trying to cast tackle this light in any kind of a wind is difficult so you'll need the extra weight to get it out there.
    Tiny tackle makes it a challenge. Regular old full size tackle will usually work but its no fun.
    You can also use canned corn below a small bobber. A single niblet of yellow corn on a tiny "cricket" hook will catch them too.
    Look for the small cigar shaped floats about 1.5inch long. Again. you'll need a small split shot for weight and to get the bait down.

    Diawa and Shakespeare both make some pretty neat ultralight kits that work great.
    Academy has them I think.
     
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    satx78247

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    The stocked rainbows are fun to catch with the proper tackle. Think itty bitty ultra ultralight
    They ain’t bad baked on an open grill with some butter and pepper.
    I normally fish saltwater but these are a nice change.

    Moonpie,

    Personally, I like trout baked in foil with fresh tomatoes, garlic, thyme, parsley & olive oil.

    yours, satx
     

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    I use a St.Croix Avid AS56ULF2 spinning rod w/ a Shimano Sedona 500FD spinning reel.
    2lb test mono.
    If its windy you'll want to clip on a split shot weight about 18" above the lure.
    Trying to cast tackle this light in any kind of a wind is difficult so you'll need the extra weight to get it out there.
    Tiny tackle makes it a challenge. Regular old full size tackle will usually work but its no fun.
    You can also use canned corn below a small bobber. A single niblet of yellow corn on a tiny "cricket" hook will catch them too.
    Look for the small cigar shaped floats about 1.5inch long. Again. you'll need a small split shot for weight and to get the bait down.

    Moonpie,

    Since you're also a ultralight tackle guy too, ONE of my most memorable Spring afternoons was at DAINGERFIELD STATE PARK LAKE a few years ago.

    I was working the edge of "the pads" with a "trout-weight" fly-rod & streamer flies, when LIGHTENING struck.
    (I thought, "WOW, I've hooked the biggest black bass ever.". = Turns out that I hooked/landed an 11 pound, 6 ounce channel cat, after over 30 minutes. - That was my first & only, up to now anyway, cat taken on a fly.)

    Note: My first cousin, Randy W. B___________, caught a just over 4 pound Crappie in 2017 near the same spot where I got the channel cat. - LOTS of nice fish in that fairly small state park lake!!!
    Also, according to THE PITTSBURG GAZETTE, a man from Camp County caught an 8+ pound Rainbow there in 2016.
    (Somebody obviously forgot to tell the Rainbows that they aren't supposed to live over the Summer in our warm TX waters.)

    yours, satx
     
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    Moonpie,

    Since you're also a ultralight tackle guy too, ONE of my most memorable Spring afternoons was at DAINGERFIELD STATE PARK LAKE a few years ago.

    I was working the edge of "the pads" with a "trout-weight" fly-rod & streamer flies, when LIGHTENING struck.
    (I thought, "WOW, I've hooked the biggest black bass ever.". = Turns out that I hooked/landed an 11 pound, 6 ounce channel cat, after over 30 minutes. - That was my first & only, up to now anyway, cat taken on a fly.)

    yours, satx

    Sounds like an epic battle!
    Good to hear you landed him.
    One time I hooked a "Grennel" aka Bowfin on an ultralight. He wasn't all that big, maybe 3lbs, but dang that was a fight! LoL.
     

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    Moonpie,

    YEP. - Up in NETX, where I'm from, we call those HARD-fighting fish: "Tourist Trout".

    Grindle/Grennel/Bowfin will HIT most any WHITE artificial bait that passes near them.
    (Fwiw, I once tried pan-frying one of them. - It tasted AWFUL & even our old housecat, "Scotch", wouldn't eat it.)

    Note: Speaking of BIG fish on ultralight rigs, the late Rufus J. Mellows from Lone Star, TX landed a 34# Buffalo on a "crappie-size" spinning rig & 4# mono, while fishing for crappie with minnows at Lone Star Lake in 1978. - I had no idea that a Buffalo would hit a live bait.
    (The picture & story was published by THE STEEL COUNTRY BEE. Otherwise, I would have believed that that "fish story" was BRAVO SIERRA.)

    yours, satx
     
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    Mowingmaniac,

    Fwiw, I once took a > 60# Blacktip shark on a saltwater spinning rod & baited with a King Bingo Junior out of my old 14ft plywood OB power-skiff, while fishing the shallows near Port Aransas for Specks. = Talk about a SURPRISE!!!
    (I still don't know how I got him in, as I was NOT using a steel leader.)

    Also, an old boarding-school chum took a 300+ pound juvenile Tiger while surf-casting for Reds near Padre Island, using cut-bait.
    I also was present out on "the T" of the 91st Street Pier on Galveston Island when a fisherman landed an over 80# TARPON on a spinning rig, using a live about 12" mullet under a toy balloon, for bait. = WATCHING that "aerial display"/extended fight was exciting.
    (One never knows what you may catch on our TX coast.)

    yours, satx
     
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    satx78247,

    Great fishing stories!

    Wadefishing, with a bit of off-shore thrown in, were once like a religion for me for many, many years. Plus, spear fishing as I used to travel all over the globe to scuba dive and spear fish. While I could free dive quite well, I once had a shallow water blackout experience that cured me of serious free diving...

    I too have also encountered some surprises when fishing.

    A monstous Jack Crevalle that I landed on 12 lb mono while in a boat and followed it for roughly 2 miles (with a friend at the helm of a center console boat) and later a huge Tarpon, that I didn't land but had on for about 4 jumps while solo wade fishing, (my favorite way of fishing, as I didn't like compromises of where to go and when to quit).....again I was using 12 lb mono and my bait in the Jack story was a 52M28 Mirrolure and the Tarpon another Johnson Sprite, but in this case it was a 1/4 oz. Chartreuse treble hook style, also one of my favorites.

    I'll stop now as most fisherman who've been at it for years are full of fish stories.....among other stuff!
     

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    Mowingmaniac24/7,

    Remind me to tell you MY wade-fishing story sometime about me discovering a VERY large (He was longer than the 16 foot power-skiff that I had been using that day.) & hungry Hammerhead between me (standing about waist-deep in the water), the skiff & dry land. = I was scared spitless & didn't go wade-fishing in the Gulf for several months.

    yours, satx
     
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