South Branch Trout Skunk

[Gerry Zagorski]

I hit the stretch south hard Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Had some pretty high expectations since they stocked the SB on Friday...

I threw everything I had at them, Spinners, Trout Magnets, Gulp Power Bait, Gulp Trout Worms and came up empty. Talked to a lot of people fishing the area and the same story from them.

Back at later in the week hopefully with better results.

[Mark B.]

Wait another month, after all the leaves are down and the water is colder. Then they will bite. Andy S. will tell ya.........

Same as it ever was.

[Jigman13]

the bigger fish stocked in the Fall arent hungry yet... take some time...

[Gerry Zagorski]

Thanks guys luck and timing are obviously not my strong suit.

[FASTEDDIE29]

I always start after all the leaves are off the trees and done mowing down the rivers. Best time in my opinion. You’ll get your Trout fix Cap’n! No worries!!!

[baetis]

The fish I encountered were hunkered down. Caught some on power bait and mop flies. I could not get them interested in any type of lure. People throwing spinners and other faster moving lures weren't getting anything.

[Capt. Lou]

90 % of stocked trout require time to acclimate to water temps , holding water and feeding in the wild .
The low hanging fruit gets picked but the majority will need a couple of weeks to fire back up !
I fish all winter and find plenty of trout on major stocked waters with minimum of anglers , sometimes go for days not seeing anyone .
Wait a while you’ll connect !

[Chrisper4694]

i crushed them in the rain the other day... the leaves were annoying. couldn't use certain lures, but they were happy to hit the jigs that i could drift through the leaf floatilla.