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Post by bflokid on Jan 5, 2007 8:38:36 GMT -5
I'm from upstate new york and have found sucker spawn, or small straight rubber worms work best in cold water. I usually put a sinker about 12-18 inches above the bait and drift it into the hole. let it go 10 feet past the hole before recasting. Also make sure you stand with the sun in your face, don't cast a shadow. GOOD LUCK!
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Post by Fisherman on Jan 5, 2007 13:34:27 GMT -5
I wonder if Gordon's carries that item. I go up again in the Spring for a few days and I'll have to try them out. Just by looking at your name, I would say you came from Buffalo. My parents are from Buffalo.
Theres pictures on the front page of this post if you wanted to see some of the fish I caught and the holes I fished.
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Post by 650scoot on Jan 23, 2007 9:56:52 GMT -5
Fisherman, You sure have a fine "Honey Hole" there! Reminds me some years ago when I found trout in a similar stream that was not stocked. I had the steam basically all to myself for a long time. I came to find out that a fish commission stocking truck had broken down and the load of trout was dumped into this small stream so as not go to waste maybe, similar situation in your case. I'll pass along a tip on taking "spooky" trout when difficult to reach them without being seen. Buy a #5 Floating Black/Silver Rapala Plug. (there is also a "countdown" sinking model) Stay well above the pool, drop it into the current and float it down into the pool. Just let it swim while moving it back and forth. DEADLY little lure and brownie's can't resist it and will take rainbows as well. Otherwise, when using live bait, fish upstream casting to head of the pool. Since the trout will be facing upstream you can get closer before spooking them. Will
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Post by Fisherman on Jan 24, 2007 8:34:53 GMT -5
I know they've always stocked the stream with trout years ago. The streams been fished from for over 50 years since my grandparents moved there. I don't think they stock the stream anymore because they probably think people don't fish it like they use to. I'm usually the only one fishing out of it. Theres a bigger stream/river where they hold trout tournies in the Spring about 30 minutes from where this one is so nobody really even bothers to fish it. I have some of those rapala floating minnows, but the ones I have are a little to big and I use them when I catch smallmouth bass in the Perky and Skippack River. Those Rapala's have always been in my tackle box. Theres a pond a few miles away from the stream I was at and I know the pond feeds into that stream. It's a private pond and I know they usually stock it with trout and I'm sure some go out of the pond downstream. I've caught largemouth and crappie out of there before which you usually don't catch in streams like that. The fish are incredibly healthy and for stockies and their colors are good. Sometimes with the stockies when I catch them their colors are pale and their fins looked like they've been chopped up.
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