Stocker Rainbow Trout vs Bright Colors?

[FishnDave]

http://www.finefishing.com/flies/colorovision trout.htm

In the article above, Gary Borger says,

Fluorescent colors stand out strongly against background spacelight of any color, and fluorescent shades of reds, oranges, purples, and chartreuse are highly attractive to salmon and trout.
Anyone fishing for steelhead or migrating salmon is well aware of the attractiveness of lures of these colors. And anglers fishing "glo-bugs" have discovered that trout will take them readily at any time, not just during the spawning migrations

The stocked trout in a nearby lake seem to have gotten more finicky. They have been in the lake since at least January, and according to reports from guys I know who have checked stomach contents, they have certainly acclimated to dining on the local forage. Gone are the days of "just imitate a fish pellet".

Typically, size 10 and 8 woolly buggers and variants, or nymph patterns in browns, blacks, rust, white or flashy gold have produced well for me. But that bite has seemed to diminish as well. Part of this may be due to the population of trout remaining in the lake continues to be increasingly depleted over time, as many folks take their limit of 5 if they can catch them. That's fine. I'm just trying to improve my success on the trout that DO remain in the lake.

So here's my question. I haven't tried bright colors yet. Flash, yes, but not bright colors like bright orange or chartreuse. I'm wondering if any fellow FAOLers that fish lakes stocked with trout have any notable success with these bright colors? I use chartreuse often for crappies, largemouth and smallmouth bass, bluegills, and white bass & hybrids (wipers). I know the trout can see it, I just wonder if they'll hit it or be scared by it.

I take it back...I've caught 2 rainbow trout while casting a chartreuse fly patterns. One hit a chartreuse/yellow Clouser for white bass. I assumed it was a fluke. I also caught one just after dark on a charteuse mylar woolly bugger. It seemed to be the only thing they could still see well enough to strike at the time, but I still only caught the one trout on it. Since I couldn't replicate the experience, it could have been another fluke.

[johnstoeckel]

Try a Pink Squirrel with UV Pink Ice Dub for the collar. It works really well for stocked rainbows in streams in my area and I would imagine it would work just as well in lakes. Plus it's a midwest original fly.

[rainbowchaser]

A few years ago I was fishing a Lake Michigan tributary in August looking for a small mouth bass or maybe an early Salmon so I tied on a big florescent chartreuse streamer. What I caught was a nice brown on the first cast as I lobbed it up under some bushes and swam it out. Since then I've tried to keep couple of bass type streamers in my trout box. I do have trouble trying them except as a last resort as I can't lose the habit of to sticking to more drab colors for trout .

[WarrenP]

I have not fished any lakes or ponds stocked with trout, but, in our local rivers here a bugger tied with a chartreuse marabou tail and a body of chartreuse Ice Chenille and a gold bead up front has been a reliable pattern.

[cycler68]

You also might try a Mickey Finn. That pattern has worked on trout and crappies for me.

[Ray Kunz]

A black soft hackle with a red thread head seems to make a marked difference here in Connecticut.