I got a surprise while fishing in the pond at Mike Miller Park in Marshall County Kentucky. Rainbow trout! It seems that the Commonwealth of Kentucky in their infinite wisdom has stocked 3000 Rainbow trout in the 3 acre pond. Standard hatchery fish, all about 9 to 10 inches long. A “Put & Take” arrangement but they are feisty and delicious. I am sure the bass like them also as some of the locals have taken bass up to 6 pounds out the pond.
Clint
glad you caught one, they do sound like nice bass food
Eric
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The catfish find them particularly tasty as well. The bass tend to get huge in bodies of water stocked with trout. It’s the number one reason the lakes in southern California are so prolific.
Heck yeah! Tasty little boogers.
Just wait for some of those guys to become the big fish in the pond. They’ll eat the bass right up.
BG BudThis is the second or third year the state has stocked this pond. I
was by it Monday but didn’t have time to stop. What did you catch 'em on?
Mark K from Carlisle Co.
I have been using Wooly Buggers and anything with a little light color to it. The seem to prefer yellows and tans. Just under the surface is where I have caught all of them. I started with a bead head nymph but noticed the only hits I got were when I started stripping it in and it came to the surface, so I went to un or lightly weighted flys. I also tried some drys but had no joy there.
Clint
Clint,
I’ve also been fishing in recently stocked waters. Here’s the fly that has been working great for me. And, yes, it is supposed to look like what it looks like…
Jeff,
Clint
I fished Casey Creek for Trout last Monday and caught most of mine on a yellow marabo leach, and since the fish in the M M park pond come from the same place they should eat it also.
mark
Sorry about the late reply.
It does not float.
I just winged it.
Here’s what I did.
Jeff’s Sluice Way Nymph:
Appropriate size hook. I did some 12’s and some 14’s and a 10. The larger ones worked better as the hook gape is a little bigger.
Lay down a base of tan thread
Wrap a couple turns of .015 lead wire (optional if you want it to sink slower)
Tie in a length of yellow chenille at the bend.
Bring thread forward to hook eye.
wrap the chenille up and down the hook shank doubling back on itself to form the right “corn” or “trout pellet” shape.
Tie off and whip finish.
I fished them in both slow (almost still) and slightly fast water. In the moving water, a dead drift worked best.
In the slow water, a very slow strip worked.
I also caught a bunch on a san juan worm variant I tie. No pictures, but here’s the “recipie”.
Appropriate size hook. 12 - 16.
Red or brown thin “san juan worm” chenille
soft hackle (I like partridge, quail, starling or pheasant but hen will work too)
Cut a piece of chenille about 3X the length of hook shank (2X on larger hooks).
Lay down theread base
lay chenille over hook with one end about 2/3 to 3/4 way up the hook shank with the rest hanging out behind the bend.
Tie in and make wide wraps up toward the hook eye.
Tie in the soft hackle at the end of the chenille
wrap about 3 or 4 wraps of the hackle toward the hook eye brushing the hackles toward the hoook bend with each wrap. (tie it in “soft hackle” style).
Tie off, and whip finish.
I will hold a match or lighter below the “tail” end of the chenille and give it a quick singe. It shrinks down to a nice little “point” and looks like the tail end of a worm. Also, I think it helps keep the stuff from unwraveling.
No lead used on this as it sinks slow, but you could use a bead head or something if you wanted it to sink faster.
I don’t know what it looks like to the fish, but the trout, bass, bluegill, crappie and other sunfish like it. I"ve caught wild trout in Yellowstone, Smokey Mountains and Montana with it and have caught warm water fish all over the midwest with this fly.
I don’t have photos. Next time I tie one I’ll post.
Jeff
I’d think a yellow egg would do about the same thing.
Some Europeans chum an area for carp then use this fly. It rests on the bottom in this application but you could make it float. It is styled after a pop up bollie for European style carp fishing.
Google corn fly and many things show up.
3000 fish into 3 acres! Damn thats a lot of fish, well atleast you’ll have something to do all winter.