Anybody stillwater trout fish?

[DarrellP 0]

Trying to learn about it.

[niveker 0]

Good question Darrell.  I don’t, probably because I live near good flowing trout water, but I’d be interested in hearing responses also.

[dflanagan 0]

That’s most of the trout fishing I do. Closest stream is about four hours away from me so I get to fish throughout the winter in local ponds stocked by the conservation department. Early season stockers are pretty dumb and can be caught on just about anything. I like biggish foam flies like hippie stompers or Chernobyl ants, maybe with a woolly bugger or some other dropper early on. December through early March I have the best luck on microjigs and midge larva and pupa patterns fished static under an indicator. Warm days any time during the season are fun with wet flies. Winged wets, soft hackles, and bumbles stripped through the shallows is a lot of fun.

[skeet3t 0]

No still water around here, just streams, rivers and tailwaters. I have read stories about fishing the mountain lakes out West. Long leaders and tippets are the rule plus a low profile. From what the stories indicate, fishing still water is difficult due to visibility of the fish and spooky due to predators from air and the shoreline.

[DFoster 0]

 

[Jacks Grampa 0]

Foam hopper over a bead head San Juan worm. 

[Philly 0]

Around here there are some lakes that are stocked with trout, but I fish the local streams.  The only time of done any lake fishing is up in Vermont but it's more if I see a cruising trout within casting range and have the right fly on.  I've only caught a couple of trout and the nicest one took a foam pan fish bug.  You can see the bug hanging out of the bluegill's mouth.  I caught the trout on it about a half hour later.  Thought I had a decent bass on.

 

[TIER 0]

It's fairly simple, all you have to do for trout is use dry flies, and sometime a nymph under the dry. When it's raining a like to use small streamers. In clear water use black and olive and in brown water use white. In blue, of course us chartreuse 

[Landon P 0]

Zonker minnow streamers 

 

[Mark Knapp 0]

I assume, and that might be a problem, that still water stockers (or lake-bound) are different from still water wild fish (lake fish that have outlets, stocked or not) We have a lot of the former and not a lot of the latter. We fish them with the normal dries ( mosquitoes, gnats, terrestrials) when they are hitting dries. For wets we use scuds, nymphs, and caddis.

Again, assuming you're not talking about Lake Trout.

[NohackleHS 0]

Like any place you fish it's best to learn what hatches occur in the lake.  The two California lakes I fish are primarily callibaetis and midge lakes.  One can be fished with a callibaetis nymph/zebra midge combination under an indicator.  There is an ant hatch (size 12) in late May and June so having a floating ant pattern is recommended.  For streamers, woolly buggers and leech patterns are effective.  The other lake has callibaetis but the midges are blood midges.  So a callibaetis nymph/red blood midge combination works well.  There are also a lot of snails so a snail pattern can replace the blood midge.  For streamers, woolly buggers work well.  Denny Rickards is a still water author who ties many useful still water patterns; he has written several books and produced a couple of videos. 

[LasVegasBill 0]

The most still water I fish is in high alpine lakes during the mid-summer. ( Wind River Wy.)  My best fish come on green and orange scuds and balanced semiseal leeches in grey and olive. 

 

 

 

The other still water I fish is Hebgen Lake outside West Yellowstone.  I take two weeks in the spring there every year.  I fish  Callibaetis nymphs and usually nail them. 

 

[WWKimba 0]

I find streamers (my favorite), caddis, and chironomids are the ones I find work for me.  Live in central NY so I have Cayuga, Seneca and Skaneateles Lakes to the west; Ontario, Onondaga, and Oneida Lakes to the north; and Cazenovia and Green Lakes to the east and those are just the major lakes.  Plus many ponds, man made lakes and gravel pits in the area so 95%+ of my fishing is still water fishing.

Also sites like   Henry Hagg Fishing Report - Hillsboro, OR | Sportsman's Warehouse could help you with the various lakes, ponds and reservoirs in your area.

Kim

[LasVegasBill 0]

The most still water I fish is in high alpine lakes during the mid-summer. ( Wind River Wy.)  My best fish come on green and orange scuds and balanced semiseal leeches in grey and olive. 

 

 

 

The other still water I fish is Hebgen Lake outside West Yellowstone.  I take two weeks in the spring there every year.  I fish  Callibaetis nymphs and usually nail them. 

 

[LasVegasBill 0]

On 12/12/2020 at 12:49 PM, WWKimba said:

I find streamers (my favorite), caddis, and chironomids are the ones I find work for me.  Live in central NY so I have Cayuga, Seneca and Skaneateles Lakes to the west; Ontario, Onondaga, and Oneida Lakes to the north; and Cazenovia and Green Lakes to the east and those are just the major lakes.  Plus many ponds, man made lakes and gravel pits in the area so 95%+ of my fishing is still water fishing.

Also sites like   Henry Hagg Fishing Report - Hillsboro, OR | Sportsman's Warehouse could help you with the various lakes, ponds and reservoirs in your area.

Kim

I grew up right near Camillus. Left to go to college and haven't been back for 50 years.  Have fond memories of my first fly fishing in 9 mile creek.