Solitariolupo
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So what are your top favorite flies for catching those golden rainbows. I plan on chasing a couple this year.
RLeep2 wrote:
So, I took him home and ate him. I sort of wish I hadn't; he tasted about the same as I imagine the Cabela's catalog would taste if I broiled it. But, better me than a heron, I guess or just having him go belly up over the Winter.
fly_flinger wrote:
Herons
Eagles
Catch and Keep Anglers
shakey wrote:
i generally ignore palominos.
they have everyone else chasing them.
jifigz wrote:
fly_flinger wrote:
Herons
Eagles
Catch and Keep Anglers
Lol, this cracks me up. I've found those "golden rainbows" far up unstocked class A streams almost a full year after stockings so somehow they survive the onslaught of ospreys, eagles, etc..
I don't care if I ever catch one of those again. And I haven't caught one in a long, long time.
The ones I’ve been chasing are definitely stocked but they have been in there all summer then in fall they seem to disappear with the rest of the trout. This is the second year I saw this.FarmerDave wrote:
Yea, The first one I caught was way back in the 80s from a lake in Connecticut. Me and a friend were slow trolling various things for whatever would bite. However, we did know the lake had very recently been stocked with trout. I had switched to a night crawler. Imagine my surprise when I pulled in a golden rainbow that was over a foot long. At first I though I had snagged a rag. We caught lots of fish that day, but just that one trout.
If I have caught any since, I don't remember them or maybe I chose not to admit it. ;-)
But you did kind of contradict yourself. You said you had "found" them (meaning more than one) far up unstocked class A "streams" (meaning far up more than one of these streams) almost a full year after stockings? When you "found" them, were they dead? ;-)
Seriously though. Just because the "official" spring stocking season is over, doesn't mean that no trout are stocked after that point. Clubs, and bucket biologists move fish around.
That said, it can happen. If they do survive the first week or two, they are harder to catch (what sal said), and if they can find cover, there is no reason they can't survive for a fairly long time.
I suppose if they are going to survive while having a yellow and red eat-me sign on their sides, best chance would be in a class A where they might have a deep hole and some cover and can find enough food by accident to survive. But multiple fish and way up multiple streams?
Or maybe they were wild. :lol: