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How to Fish Ponds for Stocked Rainbow Trout
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May 22, 2024
This video is about how to fish ponds for stocked rainbow trout. Simon LOVES trout fishing, and shares 3 different styles of fishing for trout in a pond, including floating bait, fishing with a bobber or lures. Gear Up Bait: Berkley Powerbait Crappie Nibbles - https://amzn.to/3qzKbCG Berkley Gulp Earthworms - https://amzn.to/3mw7qMD Zekes Sierra Gold Cheese - https://amzn.to/3pvekUb (all colors) Berkley Powerbait Cheese - https://amzn.to/3pEuGdr Gear Up Lures: Kastmaster Lure Multi-Size Set - https://amzn.to/3esqEhS Kastmaster 1/12 oz 3 Pack - https://amzn.to/3eq6GnI Rooster Tail Spinner 10 Piece Lure Set - https://amzn.to/3yZA91n In this video: 0:00 - Stocked Rainbow Trout 0:39 - Fishing Rod and Reel 1:04 - Soaking Bait with Bobber 1:24 - What Hook to Use 1:54 - What Bait to Use 2:44 - Fishing off the Bottom
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0:00
What's up everybody, it's Simon from Lake Hub
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Today we're going to call it Pond Hub, because you can see behind me, it's my friendly
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neighborhood fishing pond. Today we're talking about fishing stocked rainbow trout. If you live in Texas, if you live in Oklahoma, look into it because both of the wildlife
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departments in both states do lots of wintertime neighborhood stocking and little ponds
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just like this one. I'm gonna show you three different ways to fish
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for stock trout in your local pond. Two of them, soaking bait
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One of them, thrown lures. So first of all, I wanna talk about your setup
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Micro light, four pound test, or maybe even lighter, if you're into that
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But if you like the fight, go a little bit lighter, maybe even a two pound test. I mean, that's like, that's for the hardcore trout fisherman
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but four pound test, micro light, short rod, little lures, or bait
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So for soaking bait, the two ways are gonna be off the top and off the bottom
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If you're gonna go off the top, then do a really simple setup
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Small weighted bobber, small split shot, small treble hook. When I say small treble hook, this is what I mean
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Tiny. Trap mouths are small trouble hook. ball and stalker trout are generally going to be half pound to maybe a pound you'll have a few
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kind of fingerlings to get in there and then you might have a few bigger ones that get in there
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or maybe they survive you know and they'll just be in the water all year growing in size but
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generally speaking you know your fish are going to be there's going to be eight to 12 inches
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small mouths if you going off the top you can use good old earthworms night crawlers cut them in half or use small meal worms or if you going to go artificial this is the ticket right here Berkeley power bait
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croppy nibbles. So I'm going to show you a few different power bait, you know, kind of setups
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But crappy nibbles are the ticket if you're fishing artificial bait, underbobber, or trout
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I like to start with yellow and then go from there. Sorry, we're fishing
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This is Chartreuse. And this is not pink. This is bubble gum
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Actually, this one actually says glow pink. For artificial worms, you can try these two
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Sometimes they work for trout. Sometimes they don't. If you're fishing off the bottom for trout
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you're going to do a Carolina rig, and you're going to put some floating bait. So what you want to do is use a tiny egg weight
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above a snap swivel or really any kind of swivel, ideally with a little bead to kind of protect
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your knot from getting hammered so this weight's going to be able to slide so that you can be
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able to feel the tug on the line. And then you're going to have a leader that's maybe 12 inches
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to 18 inches off the bottom. You can even make it with trout. You can even make it kind of short
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because sometimes they'll cruise the bottom. So 8 inches, 12 inches, 18 inches, something like that
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And once again, you're going to end that, the tiny treble hook
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For floating bait, you have a lot of options. But my favorite is going to be cheese bait
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So Berkeley Powerbate has some great cheese bait. My personal favorite is Zeeks, Sierra Gold
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This is like a garlic cheese kind of flavor. This one is a corn flavor
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It smells like corn. It's super weird. And it's like a little bit lighter yellow color
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If I'm only going to get one, I'm going to get this one, which has orange. has chartreuse and it has pink all in one so you can do a swirl kind of rainbow kind of thing where you can just pick one color because sometimes colors the ticket Sometimes they hit on chartreuse and they won touch pink
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So it all just depends on the day. If you're not getting bites, keep mixing up the colors and then go either top or bottom
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You can also do marshmallows. They make marshmallows just for bait. This is orange garlic, Atlas Glitter Mollos brand
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And I've got hits on these. I haven't caught a neon because it's kind of a weird. It's kind of a weird thing to hook on marshmallow
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and keep it on the hook. And they're kind of big. So I cut them in half and they're still weird
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Like the cheese bait, the cheese bait you can just scoop out and you just roll it up in a ball
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and kind of shove the treble hook through it and then dip it in the water and it's good to go
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And it stays on. It has staying power. These things, you're always changing, they're always falling off
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you're always changing bait and then you're surrounded by like floating glitter mallows on the water
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as they come off your hook i don't really like them that's what you want to do fishing off the bottom
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is you use a floating bait typically that's going to be a cheese bait now you can also do my favorite
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which is fish lewers lures are going to be much harder to catch fish on but they are a ton of fun
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they're always going to be more fun than soaking bait one because you're actually you're
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and you're doing stuff and you're throwing stuff and your mind's working, you know
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instead of just sitting there just watching a bobber. Number two is because you're into it, it's way more rewarding when you get hammered on
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thrown all over. What I'm always going to start with when I'm trout fishing for stalker trout is this little
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fell out right here. That is a gold castmaster and it's like the smallest one you can you can get just nearly
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there one that like a little bit smaller but a castmaster castmaster has kind of a funny funny background so it was a failed earring Look at that Isn that funny Like in this I want to say the 60s or the 70s It was a failed earring design And it a perfect
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little wobble. It's such a simple design. It's just a slab. It's a colored slab. And it's off
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balance because it's heavier on one side than the other. So in one of the best pivots of all
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time the failed earring company turned it into a fishing lure and that that sucker is awesome castmasters
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in a bright silver color or like that light blue are also really great if you get into a school of
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sandbass the bigger ones are great for striper it's a really versatile lure that's so simple you got to love
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it you can also get them in a rainbow trout pattern which is a little morbid but i've got fish on
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So, and another great lure to throw, but you can't cast them as far are rooster tails
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Here's my whole little batch of rooster tails. I keep them all in one little swivel in my tackle box to keep them organized
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Now, I have to kind of file through them to get one off that I want, but that way they don't get all crazy tangled up
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And so I've got all kinds of colors. I've got your, you know, trout, you know, what do they call that, a fire tiger, you know, kind of trout pattern
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I've got black, I've got pink, I've got light blue. So the ticket is flash, some flash, and then a trailing tail
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So the feather, when it gets wet, kind of has that, you know, kind of soft tail kind of look
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And that's really the ticket. I've had a lot more bites on starker trout on gold flash than anything else
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That's how I catch trout in my neighborhood. trout ponds. I want to hear how you do it too. Get out there and catch some fish y'all
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We'll catch you next time
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