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bigtrout025
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 Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 3:24 pm Post subject: Salmon River Trophy Trout Area |
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Well I guess today was my lucky day since I have been fishing like crazy with zero luck. I'm in the process of learning how to fly fish but I broke my fly rod tip today rolling up my window so I decided to take out the ugly stick and some lures. I have to say fly fishing is very difficult and am debating on just sticking with a spinning rod. What kind of trout is this one?
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PECo
Joined: 06 Oct 2009
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Location: Avon, CT
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Those are brook trout. The leading edges of a brook trout's lower fins are white.
Personally, I don't feel the nostalgia or romance of fly fishing. If I want to catch trout, I'll just use a spinning setup and tie on an inline spinnerbait or small stickbait, like a floating Rapala. I had some time to kill, yesterday, and quickly boated four brown trout while casting and retrieving a Silver Rapala Shallow Shad Rap SSR-7 tied onto 50 pound test braided line across the current. If I had used a smaller SSR-5 or an inline spinnerbait, I would have easily caught more than my limit. BTW, your fish were waaay prettier than mine. 
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bigtrout025
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| Thanks for the advice and nice fish! Where did you go? I recently purchased a kayak and would love to catch some in a lake but don't know how to get down deeper like at Mt Tom or crystal lake where the trout are 20 to 30 feet deep |
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SeaDog1
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Hi BT025,
Need to troll deeper at Mount Tom .... Try this neat little invention !
Poor Man's Downrigger and inexpensive.
www.sinker-dropper.com
Works for me !
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PECo
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| bigtrout025 wrote: | | Thanks for the advice and nice fish! Where did you go? I recently purchased a kayak and would love to catch some in a lake but don't know how to get down deeper like at Mt Tom or crystal lake where the trout are 20 to 30 feet deep |
I was on the Farmington River next to River Glen in Farmington.
I'm not a trout fisherman, but I've caught trout deep in East Twin Lake and Middle Congamond Lake using drop shot five inch Senkos and 2-1/2 inch Gulp! Minnows.
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