Thread: Micro jigs

If they are hatchery raised, It helps to know what color their feed was ate the hatchery. Often more fish would e caught with a bait this color.
Learned this at about 10 yrs old. After Dad retired from the Marines on the way to the new house we went camping and fishing up in the Los Angeles National Forest. Summer time. We spent a week there, and fished a stocked, spring fed lake. Tried everything, and no bites. Close to the end of our time there, two young men showed up, and I mean they were putting the Kaboom on them trout. One after the other. Dad had rented a row boat that day, and we never seen what they were using. That evening after diner, my brother and I grabbed our poles and went to see if the evening bite was on. We went were those two boys were, and my brother found a partial bag of the marshmallow, circus peanuts. You know, the orange colored candy ones. Well we said what the heck, we've tried everything else, why not. It turned out to be the trick.
It turned out the food pellets the trout were fed at the hatchery was in fact orange.

Funny that you mentioned color of their food, matching the hatch. I stopped fishing and ate a sandwich and sat on a bench next to the river. Had rye bread and started rolling little balls of bread flicking them into the water and within a couple seconds they were eaten by trout. There was a guy fishing there with his two sons and they hadn't caught a thing. Went to the truck and gave them a piece of rye bread and told them to use it with no weight. In less than a half hour they all had their limits. Rye bread balls were almost the same color as the hatchery trout pellets.