bushing lad 114 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Got a little stream near me and its full of brown trout. Dont think anyone owns or bothers with it as ive never been asked for my licence before and it used to be purple with the pollution in the past. Anyway, while fishing for perch on a pond near the river, i thought ide try the river not expecting much. But to my surprise the trout went crazy for it and ive used lures ever since. Caught some decent size ones in the past up to 3 pounds. Just wondered if anyone else uses lures or spinners for them. Cheers. Quote Link to post
tegater 789 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Got a little stream near me and its full of brown trout. Dont think anyone owns or bothers with it as ive never been asked for my licence before and it used to be purple with the pollution in the past. Anyway, while fishing for perch on a pond near the river, i thought ide try the river not expecting much. But to my surprise the trout went crazy for it and ive used lures ever since. Caught some decent size ones in the past up to 3 pounds. Just wondered if anyone else uses lures or spinners for them. Cheers. Small mepps are lethal on wild browns. My 10 year old uses them all the time in the hill lochs, whilst I am floating the fly! A small black one with the orange spots seems to work the best, out of the ones he uses. Quote Link to post
reddawn 2,173 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Got a little stream near me and its full of brown trout. Dont think anyone owns or bothers with it as ive never been asked for my licence before and it used to be purple with the pollution in the past. Anyway, while fishing for perch on a pond near the river, i thought ide try the river not expecting much. But to my surprise the trout went crazy for it and ive used lures ever since. Caught some decent size ones in the past up to 3 pounds. Just wondered if anyone else uses lures or spinners for them. Cheers. Small mepps are lethal on wild browns. My 10 year old uses them all the time in the hill lochs, whilst I am floating the fly! A small black one with the orange spots seems to work the best, out of the ones he uses. we have used same tactics while fishing the smaller rivers for brownies, an for the big rainbows in the lakes we use big rapala pike plugs an they seem to sort the bigger fish from the small ones Quote Link to post
mackem 23,824 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Had brownies up to maybe a pound on small mepps,under-rated lures to be honest,maybe because they are the cheapest of the cheap but they have stood the test of time. Quote Link to post
TGEvans 4 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Small Aglia Long and Black Fury's. Every time! T 1 Quote Link to post
mackem 23,824 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Just got home,been out on a friends water fishing,few rainbow but also got a brownie of maybe 4lb?Starlight float and bread/maggots not exactly lures but productive nonetheless Quote Link to post
reddawn 2,173 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Just got home,been out on a friends water fishing,few rainbow but also got a brownie of maybe 4lb?Starlight float and bread/maggots not exactly lures but productive nonetheless my mate had a 4lb brownie out our local stretch a river, never even seen 1 bigger than 1lb took from there, to say he was chuffed was an understatment haha he was trotting maggots for rgayling as it goes Quote Link to post
mackem 23,824 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 he was trotting maggots for rgayling as it goes I had a session during the summer with 2 other guys,we fished overnight on a very productive river,got a ridiculous number of trout,returned most but we also got a large number of grayling,I kept 2 decent sized ones back for the table,underrated fish. Quote Link to post
GHT 6 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 walking the bank using the mepps style spinners is my favorite type of fishing , cant beat it imo. Quote Link to post
reddawn 2,173 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 he was trotting maggots for rgayling as it goes I had a session during the summer with 2 other guys,we fished overnight on a very productive river,got a ridiculous number of trout,returned most but we also got a large number of grayling,I kept 2 decent sized ones back for the table,underrated fish. grayling is the 2nd thought in mind on a fresh winter morning, 1st is always ferreting, but if for 1 reason or another i cant get the fitches out, then its trotting for the grayling on the big sweeping bends sorry for turning the trout thread into a thread about cucumber smelling fish Quote Link to post
fitchet 788 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 on a local chalkstream wich is free to fish i was using spinner and while i was catching small trout my mate was catching grayling upto 2lb and ended up having a 14lb trout aswell . . . . Quote Link to post
bushing lad 114 Posted December 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 14 pound! Thats a huge trout Quote Link to post
sniffer 167 Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 on a local chalkstream wich is free to fish i was using spinner and while i was catching small trout my mate was catching grayling upto 2lb and ended up having a 14lb trout aswell . . . . It had to be a seatrout or a salmon i would say good fish thou for a chalk stream... Quote Link to post
leegreen 2,100 Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 Erh, native trout are out of season at the mo. I'm assuming you would be looking to fish between March and November. And by lures you mean spinners, spoons and plugs. Any small lure will work, Mepps are good, there are small Reparlas that are about an inch and a half long, I also have a small selection of wedge shaped spoons that were gifted me from Canada. All of these will need a light line to cast any distance. Good luck and put some back yc. Quote Link to post
fitchet 788 Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 on a local chalkstream wich is free to fish i was using spinner and while i was catching small trout my mate was catching grayling upto 2lb and ended up having a 14lb trout aswell . . . . It had to be a seatrout or a salmon i would say good fish thou for a chalk stream... nah mate most deffinitley an escapee farmed brown trout . . . . on some parts of this river its £600 a day !!! Quote Link to post
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