Stocker Gone Wild!?!

[kcritch]

Now that's how to treat your dad on Fathers day! Very nicely Done! Cool trout too. I don't know how you catch them on those Rapalas though. Been throwin those things for a few years now and never got a damn thing on them...same exact color and size both floating and count down as you have in your picture. Must be the waters i'm fishin as it can't possibly be my fault.

[thmyorke1]

Beautiful fish, man. Good thing smallmouth exist, they fill in the gap when conditions arent right for trout

Originally Posted by kcritch

Now that's how to treat your dad on Fathers day! Very nicely Done! Cool trout too. I don't know how you catch them on those Rapalas though. Been throwin those things for a few years now and never got a damn thing on them...same exact color and size both floating and count down as you have in your picture. Must be the waters i'm fishin as it can't possibly be my fault.

Very slow retrievals, sometimes just laying it in fast water while you hold it upstream, not touching the reel, have worked for me along the raritan and its branches.

[NorthJerzyG]

+1 All about the technique.

Sometimes I like floaters better in fast shallow or slower water. What I like best is the option to cast or not. If it's tight, j can just flip it out and let it float down while I feed it line. Once it's in the desired spot I flip the bail and start to retreive it. Sometimes I even catch em topwater on the "drift" downstream!!

For faster or deeper areas, I go with the CD to get down to the fish. Then I just experiment with different retrievals. Steady, erratic, fast, slow, stationary in the current. All work at times, but some better than others. Also, experiment with different sizes depending on the size of fish you are after........