Be careful, just 15 minutes at a trout farm can set you back over $100. Many
farms charge you by the pound, so no worry's about small fish. Usually, they
have several ponds where fish are separated by age, so most fish caught in a
pond will be pretty uniform in weight. To answer your question though, you
cannot rig your presentation so a small fish won't strike it. Little guys
are just as aggressive as the big ones.

Because fishing in a trout farm pond is SO EASY, the owner often stands
close by with a fish bat to kill anything you land, and then his cash
register rings. You can use the worst, crappiest lures in your tackle box
that have never caught anything, but they will work great in a trout farm.
These fish are ravenous for anything other than the trout pellets that they
are regularly fed.

I got roped into going to one of these several years ago, and when the owner
wasn't looking, I took the treble hook of my lure. That way the fish would
attack it, but not get pulled in. He never did figure out why I was losing
so many.

Another word of advise - get a receipt for what you paid the farm with the
farm's name on it. By law, because he manages his own stock he can let you
catch as many as you want without regards to daily bag limits. But if you
are caught with 15 fish in the car on your way home, you will be in for a
big fine from the game warden unless you can prove the fish were caught on
private waters.

Hope this helps.

Harry


"John Smith" wrote in message
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I'm going to take my kids to a trout farm nearby. This way I know
they'll be rewarded for tying their own knots, baiting their own hooks
and casting their own lines. A little practice here and we'll head for
lakes and rivers.

Since you have to keep everything you catch and pay for everything you
catch, are their any tricks that will help us catch some bigger fish
that are worth keeping and eating? Tricks that will help avoid catching
the smaller fish. I would feel bad about catching and killing the
little ones that are too small for eating.

Seriously, I'm not so interested in catching the big ones as I am in not
catching the little ones. After all, it's a trout farm, the catching is
easy.

Thanks,

JS