Stocker Trout Fishing News

Field updates to expand on our latest edition of iFishNews. We added comments and video clips as well as pictures for our Readers. Also, do mark your calendars as we noticed two events that may be of interest to those in the DFW Metroplex. December 17, 2016 – Pottsboro is hosting a Trout Derby. Looks like a new pond too! March 11, 2017 – 2nd Annual TRWD Flyfest.  We went last year and had a great time! PS: Made it back to Flower Mound Saturday morning. Checked out the three ponds that were stocked with trout. No luck at Rheudasil Park, had one hit at Leonard Johns Park, and caught four at Heritage Park. Stay tuned for th e video! Note: We reference TRWD several times in the video. TRWD is the Tarrant Regional Water District Authority.  

Rain today has us delayed in fishing. No worries, let’s talking fishing! This round we thank our Subscribers for getting us to the 400 Subs mark! Provide updates on trout stockings, answer questions on a starter fly rod/reel setup and five fishing flies for stocker trout in Texas, and end with a note on how we tie our own leaders! Longer than our normal videos, but we hope it provides Readers/Viewers useful information when they go fishing hopefully once this rain stops! PS: Do check out the article linked to the picture in the sidebar. It provides additional details of two of the fishing flies we mention in today Vlog including suggestions on how we fish them.  

We hosted another Live Stream Q&A Session on YouTube this evening. Below is the archived episode. Lesson learned from last Q&A is the down time or lag while waiting for questions leads to long pauses in the session. Thos round, we used yesterday’s trip to Denison Dam to keep things more lively. We did have a couple of viewers watch the live session, and we did have one viewer ask a couple of questions. So far, the second beta test appears to be a success. We do need to work on the video sound; lots of background noise from the river and what we think is the power lines. Will see what we can do to improve on it next round!

One Keeper…. This round we went back to Denison Dam Saturday morning for another go at Striped Bass. The generation schedule showed no planned generations until around 12:45PM. So, by the time we started fishing, we had at least three solid hours to fish the pools and runs! InTouch Switch Chucker Last week we picked up a Lamson Waterworks Liquid 4 reel from Cabelas. After a little research on which fly line to use, we went with Rio’s InTouch Switch Chucker line in a 5wt per Rio’s line selection app! Had to order online and wait about a week. While we waited for the fly line to arrive, we fished the 8wt Switch Rod on local ponds to practice casting. Even better, we caught a few fish while practicing… then, Friday the new fly line arrived, and in no time, we had it spooled on to the fly reel. The bite was steady but the Striped Bass were little. Also, we did catch a few Longear when we changed from a Clouser Minnow to a Near Deere. We had caught one little Stripe...

Road is open again! This round we do a quick recap of the local ponds fished this past week – Bethany Lakes, Sonic Pond, Eagles Nest aka “Pond Behind In-N-Out Burger”.  And then, we go into Saturday’s trip to Denison Dam. Was a tough go but did catch and release a couple of Carp as well as hook into two nice Striped Bass! Bethany Lakes was a quick trip where we fished  a Foam Grasshopper and caught Bluegill and one Bass. Sonic Pond had us missing strikes but did land a little Bass on a Neare Deere. Eagles Nest was interesting as we had not fished it a while; no Bruiser Bass but did get a nice Bruiser Bluegill! Saturday’s Pattern! As for the fishing trip to Denison Dam, on a whim decided to make the run to the Tailrace as we noted the Realtime Release and Generation Schedule showed no water flow and no scheduled generation, respectively. With those conditions, the pools and runs would be ideal for wet wading and fly fishing! (see our archived post for more o...

Rain and more rain this past week plus having to put in extra time in our day jobs had us sidetracked from fishing. No matter, did take care of a few items from the “to do” fishing list like boat registration renewal. Posted below is the latest Field Team Vlog that covers a few admin things from the Team! PS: Weekend is clobbered with non-fishing things to get done. No worries, if an opportunity shows where we can get a round of fishing in, will take advantage of it it and wet a line! No fishing this round… admin things like boat registration renewal, fishing license, iFishNews… https://t.co/O4ZZhKrs30 via @YouTube — StockerTroutFishing (@iFishRadio) August 20, 2016

Playing around with the camera and green screen. Put together Vlog #1 that shows the action at Sonic Pond using the Traditional III Fly Rod from Cabelas and a Foam Grasshopper! Had started out with a Near Deere but after took hook ups with Bass that threw the hook, decided to switch to the Foam Grasshopper! Lost count of how any Bass were caught. No Bruisers but would say it was in the double digits! Do stay tuned for more Vlogs; hope to mix things up some more once we get the hang of the camera/green screen!