Trout fishing with worms

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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"Mike Connor" Mike-Connor wrote in message
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"mary" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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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
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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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"Lazarus Cooke" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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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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Try upstream worming for trout with a river "on its bones". The trout spit
it out quicker than any fly, even assuming they mouth it at all. There are
few people who will go home with a bag of trout in such conditions.

Salmon? Bloody stupid fish anyway. Might as well use a net.

TL
MC

In article m, Mike
Connor wrote:

Salmon? Bloody stupid fish anyway.

TL
MC

I agree. But they swim through nice places. Not a patch on trout,
though.

L

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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?"

From: "Wayne Knight"

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

For most of us, it all ends with worms. {;-)


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

"Wayne Knight" wrote in message
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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.

"George Adams" wrote in message
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From: "Wayne Knight"

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

For most of us, it all ends with worms. {;-)

The beginning with worms we all forget, and the ending with
worms.....well, we are then beyond caring. It's those times in
between......

Wolfgang
off to the vet.

"Skill in this fishing has a wider implication than in most others,
and from the very nature of the method there must be difficulties
unkown in either wet or dry fly.

"It makes infinitely greater demands upon your knowledge of the river
and the trout than fly or minnow fishing, both of which are more or
less long range methods. Practised at the proper season, when streams
are low and crystal clear and brillliant sunlight pours down on pool
and stickle, showing up every pebble on the bottom, worm fishing is
delicate work for the expert and tantalisingly difficult fishing for
anyone wlse. "

(from the introduction to ' Clear-water trout fishing with worm' by
Sidney Spencer, 1935)

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