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[Bluebasser86]

Trout season just opened up around here and the warm weather has also got the catfish starting to move around. One of the local lakes stocks tons of rainbows that are a blast to catch since they're usually the most aggressive thing out there in the cold water. Sunday I took my wife out so she could enjoy catching them. She caught several like this one on my secret trout bait

I've been tying some trout jigs to take on a trip to the White River in Arkansas next week and thought this would be a perfect chance to test them out, I was right.


The next day I took my friend and my dad out to the same lake, same spot. We caught trout about as fast as we could fight the last one in and get it unhooked. My friend caught a heck of a nice stocker trout, a big male on my secret trout lure

Finally kanasbassfisher08 and I went to try the Kansas River to see if we could get a catfish to bite. We had lots of little bites but Chris caught the only fish. It turned out to be a really healthy channel cat in the 10-12 pound range.

[clayton86]

Nice catch

[deep]

Nice catches!
How big were those stocked rainbows Blue? And do you usually catch them right where the trucks drop them?

[Siebert Outdoors]

Very nice catching!

[Bluebasser86]

Nice catches!
How big were those stocked rainbows Blue? And do you usually catch them right where the trucks drop them?

The big one my friend caught was 3lbs 3ozs but we've caught them up to 5lbs. There's another lake about 40 minutes away that stocks monsters. The state record was broken twice there last year, first with an 11+lb fish then one over 12lbs.
The edge of the water over my friends left shoulder is where they stock them. It seems early on a lot of them stay close but after a couple weeks they get spread out over the lake pretty well. It's a deep 400 acre lake so it takes awhile for them to get everywhere in the lake.

[deep]

I see. Thank you.

[Gardnaaa]

best tips for catching trout for a newbie? Im going to try to catch them in a river they stock them in this year, and dont know much about it.if you could PM me some info, id really appreciate it. thank you!