Try giving bass sized lures a try, they do work. Let me tell you about some of my experiences.
I have a good friend that likes to fish for trout. There have been several times that we would go fishing together. I of course wanted to fish for bass and Tom would want to fish for trout. I didn’t have any tackle that was actually trout stuff but I did have plenty of bass stuff. So, can you guess what I used in trout infested waters? Yep, you guessed it and boy howdy, I caught trout. At first Tom laughed at me and told me that it would never work but I wouldn’t listen. The funny part was that all of the trout that I caught were a lot bigger than the ones Tom was catching. Of course this caught his interest and he wanted to know what exactly what I was using and of course if I had any extra. The first time this happened, as I lent Tom a small bass crank bait, I told him that he would probably catch the biggest trout of his life and guess what he caught on his second cast. Yep, a big toothy German Brown Trout that weighed over 7 pounds. It was a very nice fish. Another time we were fishing for small mouth bass in the Owens river. I was using my favorite spider jig and catching some nice bass. I made a cast, felt the slight tap and noticed my line start to swim off. I reeled down until I felt pressure and set the hook hard. Upon the hook set this German Brown trout shot straight out of the water like a missile fired from a submarine. I swear that this fish cleared the surface by at least 4 feet. He ended up weighing just a bit over 8 pounds.
There is this stream that I like to fish often because it holds some very nice bass. I’ll be catching bass on a 6 inch drop shot worm and have big trout just knock the fire out of them. I can honestly say that I’ve caught big trout on everything form hard jerk baits to deep diving crank baits to 12 inch plastic worms, just about any type bass lure I have.
Did you know the big ole hunk of painted wood with the small paddle tail called the AC plug was originally created back in the 80’s to catch big brown trout and only became very popular when bass fishermen starting using it to imitate stocker trout for the monster bass out here in California that have made trout part of their diet. Up until that point it was a bait used exclusively for trout. Even back then Alan Cole knew that big trout eat big baits and still to this day people are catching monster trout on this big ole hunk of wood.
While the stocked trout may be just a Power Bait eating, fly gulping, cheese nibbler, the bigger trout don’t live by the same rules. Give bigger baits a try the next time you go trout fishing. You just might surprise yourself.
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Steve Nicholas says
I too am a big fan of bass but I have recently moved from southern California to Reno Nevada and Bass are hard to come by here so I started to target trout the only problem was all I had was Bass tackle. At first I just kind of stopped fishing but then my uncle wanted to go camping at eagle lake and get a boat so we went and the whole way there he talked about how I was on his teritory and how he was going to out fish me because I didn’t have any of the right takle. Well I showed him I started to throw big plugs and right away I had a nice size trout within the fisrt 5 minutes he said I just got lucky but soon I had another but he was to stubburn to try any of my takle and got skunked I only cought 2 that day but that’s because it did not take long before he wanted to go back to camp.ever since that day I have had a open mind and started to fish the truckee river and have had lots of success on a varity of colors and lures all of them bass lures I have bought a few trout lures but I have yet to catch anything with them. Also if you have ever seen the Bill Siemantel DVD for the BBZ-1 there is a photo of a guy holding up a huge huge brown cought on one of his bbz lures and if I did not see that I would not think it possable.So for those who live were there are big trout next time your at the takle shop pick up a few bass lures and give them a try