Stocker Trout Fishing News

Impromptu livestream providing fishing updates from the Team. Hope to keep on fishing and posting in 2021! Good Luck and Good Fishing! Mentioned this round are: Flower Mound Heritage Park Rheudasil Park Waterloo Park Pond and Trout Derbies

Made it to Heritage Park in Flower Mound today and in short order struck out. No trout this round! Did see trout, did see other catch them, but yours truly did not. No worries had a great time getting some casting practice with the OPST Skagit Line. Still learning but getting better every trip. Water was clear and you could see the trout react to your bait, lure, or fishing fly. But, for some reason the preferred bait was corn. There was one fisherman who limited out quickly with a “mystery bait”… so the trout are there! Below is a brief snippet of today… all was good despite the strikeout, Brunch made up for it!   Struck out #fishing for stocked #trout today. still had fun, plus had a great #brunch at #lepeep A post shared by COAF Field Team (@coaf.field.team) on Dec 9, 2017 at 6:25pm PST

Here is the video of Saturday’s action at the Flower Mound ponds that were stocked with trout last week. Was a tough round with no bites at Rheudasil Park and one strike at Leonard Johns Park. Did luck into trout after switching from Power Bait to Super Dupers and Kastmasters. Trout wanted nothing to do with them; luckily, tried an inline spinner that was a gift from last Christmas from the Mystery Tackle Box. It was a pink inline spinner in 1/16th oz; name on the spinner blade was Min-O-Spin. Whatever the name, it worked for three of the trout. Then, the bite turned off on spinners. Min-O-Spin Did see others starting to get strikes with bait but could not tell what they were using. Also, noticed trout rising on the surface going for little black midges. Switched to a fly rod and was going to fish a dry fly but already had a Purple Near Deere Variant on the line, so went with it. Sure enough caught trout number four with it. Did have several other missed strikes but had to call i...

PBRG in Size 14 Made it to Heritage Park – one of the three ponds in Flower Mound that were stocked with trout. Rain let up, so had to make the run down the Tollway for a go at Rainbow Trout. New place… so new that Google Maps does not show the pond. It looks like it is still being built. Regardless, there is a pond, and it was stocked with trout. It’s a small pond that may be the same size as the pond at Waterloo in Denison. Water was murky, and there was a hatch going on. Even saw a few risers go for them. For us, no luck with fishing flies. Had to resort to a PBRG in Size 14 to make a limit today. “PBRG” is Power Bait Rainbow Glitter molded on a size 14 hook. We usually keep a jar in our fishing vest for times like today when the trout wanted bait instead of fishing flies. Overall, the bite was steady with lots of folks getting bit. Power Bait and Corn seemed to be working; did see several taken with fishing flies but could not tell if anyone had strikes...

Fished a new place today – Heritage Park in Frisco. Park has two ponds – one with a bridge and another one without a bridge. The one with the bridge looked promising; the other one looked too muddy to fish. Had tied some Pink Near Deere as it was suggested using them when fishing the Lower Mountain Fork River in Oklahoma. Not able to fish the River, opted to give the Pink Near Deere a try using it tandem rigged with a Rainbow Warrior – another suggested fishing fly for the Lower Mountain Fork! After several casts, started getting strikes but kept on missing the hook sets. On the third cast, had one on but it came off soon after. Next cast, had another strikes and it stayed on – a little Catfish. Looked like the pond was stocked with fingerling Catfish. Continued to work the pond and caught a number of little Catfish – easily makes the Micro Fishing List! Fun stuff! Pink Near Deere Catfish that went for a Pink Near Deere!