Trout fishing with worms

Among things that I have learned from reading British books and magazines is
that upstream worm fishing for trout in clear streams is considered to be at
least as difficult as, and requires as much skill as, fly fishing. I
believe it is called "trotting" a worm. It is something I cannot confirm
from experience but find believable. The Brits have a much richer history of
angling than we in the colonies - Izaak Walton, who we think of as the
father of our sport, was a Brit. Some people might not know that Walton was
actually a worm fisher. Another impression I gained is that coarse fishing
as practiced in Europe is at least as technical as fly fishing is in its
practice and equipment. So much for the snobbery that some of us fly
fishers are prone to.



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"Charlie Wilson" wrote in message
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I'd rather eat worms than fish with them.


Didn't one of Haig-Brown's book begin with "It all started with worms?"

I bet the majority of us did, and we had a lot of fun at it. It was kind
of a double-reverse anti snobbery jab, without the little happy face.

"Charlie Wilson" wrote in message ...
I'd rather eat worms than fish with them.

Why not PICKLE the Worms,in some of that Merlot.
The Fish might enjoy it,and you might catch more?

"mary" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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SNIP
He said you could not catch trout with worms.
Tom

One may catch trout on just about anything, worms, cheese, bread, liver, etc
etc. It is merely more elegant to do it with flies.

Definition of fishing = "A jerk on one end, waiting for a jerk on the other
end".

TL
MC

I did a pretty good job catching trout on worms ...meal worms.....power
bait.....spinners.....but go down to your local stream about 6 or 7:00 at
night without a rod you will see dimples on the water or splashy rises or
jumping trout the surely ain't going after worms.... catch one of the bugs
thats flying around your head thats what they are eating......over a season the
flyfisherman will catch more and bigger and better fish the a bait slinger will
IMHO


Handyman Mike
Standing in a river waving a stick

Mike wrote:snipOne may catch trout on just about anything, worms, cheese,
bread, liver, etc
etc. It is merely more elegant to do it with flies.

I gotta go with Mike on this one. Trout will eat anything catfish will.

Big Dale

I remember several years ago watchinf a fishing show where the host (can't
remember who) was fishing for trout in Conneaut creek in my home town,
Conneaut, Ohio. He was using live maggots. Don't know where he got them in
late February.

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"mary" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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SNIP
He said you could not catch trout with worms.
Tom

One may catch trout on just about anything, worms, cheese, bread, liver,
etc
etc. It is merely more elegant to do it with flies.

Definition of fishing = "A jerk on one end, waiting for a jerk on the
other
end".

TL
MC

"mary" a écrit dans le message de
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When I was a kid, my father and I would fish for bluegills, sunfish and so
forth with worms. Trout fishing came up, and I asked my father if we could
go trout fishing. He said you could not catch trout with worms. Once I got
"older", I was visiting a private trout hatchery that stocked , I guess,
private streams. The person at the hatchery said that only "jerks" fished
for trout using worms. He implied that using worms to catch trout was
really
easy, and no challenge. Now I am confused. My father acted as if you could
not possibly catch trout with worms, and the "expert" acted as if catching
trout with worms was like shooting ducks in your bathtub. Any opinions
about
this?

Thanks

Tom

In France, many people use worms to fish trout. And the fishes know the
worms : it's sometimes more easy to catch one with fly than with worm ! The
better moments come after rain.
Here, in Pyreneans rivers, some old fishermen use maggot. On a quick
stream, it is very difficult to see when the fish has taken the hook: he is
very quick ! ... more than ducks :-)))

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The main trouble is that trout don't sip a worm the way they sip a fly.
They swallow the worm and so you hook the fish in the throat - even
very small hungry fish. So even though I\m quite anti catch and release
as a doctrine, I wouldn't want to fish with worms any more. I like to
be able to release small fish without harming them.

Otherwise I'd tend to agree that we shouldn't be too snobby about it.
there\s a school that argues that fishing for atlantic salmon on the
upstream worm is a highly skilled business - much more so than the fly.
(See the books of Sidney Spenc er)

L:azarus

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