wrote:

Stocked trout tend to look up for their food as they have become
accustomed, at the hatchery to being fed that way. Fish from the top or
suspended up from the bottom.

After my grandad visited a hatchery, he switched flies. Rather than using a
fly the color of what was hatching, we went to brown - the color of the
pellets they were being fed - with a red tail. Worked great. Stayed withing
6" of the top of the water, too.

And as kids, we all had Zebco reels -- not so good for fly fishing. We'd
pass a clear bobber over the line, twist it tight about 3' above the fly,
and fish the fly slowly just like any other lure.

Good luck & wish I was there,

John
in Houston