I personally prefer spinners over powerbait. What do you guys like better?

I’ve always had good luck throwing panther martins for stalked trout. Sometimes a spoon or rooster tail would be the ticket. If I had to use bait it would be fireballs in the blue top and corn.

 

powerbait was like my last option.

Acme Kastmaster in silver

A plain 1/16 oz. ball head jig dressed with 2" chartreuse curly tail.

Panther Martin, black with chartreuse spot and a gold blade...KILLER!

 

Little cleos or a micro jig under a bobber. 

8 hours ago, Crankin4Bass said:

Acme Kastmaster in silver

great lure

I always lean towards lures, many already mentioned above.   I'd add joes flys to the list of spinners.  

 

Powerbait definity works but they tend to swallow it so you might kill the fish.  If you go that route I'd suggest trying salmon eggs also.  Pautzkes fireballs.  

23 hours ago, Crestliner2008 said:

A plain 1/16 oz. ball head jig dressed with 2" chartreuse curly tail.

Taking a bunch of kids fishing today and rigged them all up with 1/16 oz chartreuse roadrunners with 2” Powerbait Grubs in Pumpkinseed. That’s a killer combo! So many anglers underestimated the effectiveness of Grubs, especially for stocked trout. 

 

They were great for sight fishing too because you can finesse them slowly in a school and usually always pick out a gullible fish as opposed to burning inline spinners past em

Trout magnets in hot pink. 

If you are fishing with kids and plan on keeping them power bait nuggets work great. Otherwise look into a lure called a Super Dooper? it is a spoon type lure and I have never had a lure that worked better on stocked trout. Silver with a red head worked best but honestly they all worked.

 

Allen

Mepps Spinners if you have room to cast.  Otherwise I'd just use crawlers under a float.

Power bait if the area fished is a stocked area, the lakes and ponds where I fish 90 % use power bait since the fish are feed pellets at the hatchery. But I have used spinners and caught fish. 

Also trying this year are Pistol Petes with the bubble and Joes Super Flies in the Royal Coachman color. 

 

I keep track of the stocking reports in my area. When I see my local waters have been stocked I like to start with powerbait, both dough and nuggets. The freshly released trout are used to eating pellets of fish food. My thought is they have not yet adjusted to the wild and eating, insects and smaller fish. That's why the powerbait is a good choice at this time.

 

A week after the trout have been released I switch to inline spinners, like the Mepps Aglia and Panther Martins. I also love Leland Trout Magnet jigs.

 

Switching up lures for trout fishing helps my catch ratio. If I go to my local spots and everyone is throwing inline spinners I pick something else.

On ‎1‎/‎11‎/‎2019 at 2:43 PM, roadwarrior said:

Panther Martin, black with chartreuse spot and a gold blade...KILLER!

 

Couldn't agree more. Between that and a lil cleo, you can have some serious fun.