How to catch these fish?

[Panfisha]

Smern, I assume there are no bait restrictions on this water? I might smuggle up some *gasp* spinning equipment.

[Max]

These fish will be difficult to catch as they are habituated to eat pellets rather than bugs or minnows. I have seen this training on several streams where the guides stop regularly for lunch. One group of fish were refered to as "Bread Heads" as that is what the guides fed them on a daily basis.
Another group of big brownies was called "Chicken Fish" as their daily diet consisted of chicken wings.
The suggestion of chumming them with pellets and then throwing a fly to them is not in regulatory angling compliance in many places.
A pellet cluster fly sounds like the way to go. Good luck.

[DShock]

Smernsky,
Perhaps there is another approach to your dilemma. Maybe you should do some observation of individual fish. Figure out which fish are passive aggressive and which fish are obsessive compulsive. Then you can ignore the passive fish and concentrate on the obsessive ones. Also you could try to gain the fish's confidence by showing up there on a regular basis. Above all, DO NOT show fear around those trout! They can smell fear.
Good Luck!
Doug

[JohnScott]

Ed -

You wanted to catch ONE fish and get a picture of it, right ??

COMMIT to the zonker for a full day. If you get two solid hits in 30 minutes, it is almost certain that you will hook and land more than one fish if you just stay with it for your five hour day. Assuming, of course, that you don't lose or break off both flies before you land the fishes.

LEAVE EVERY OTHER KIND OF FLY AT HOME THAT DAY, period.

John

[standstall]

I would get a very fine aquarium net and find out what kind of bugs are in the stream and copy some thay eat something other than fish food

standstall