What would yall suggest for brook trout in a dam that almost never gets fished...Just remember they are not stalked so I don't know if they will eat power bait. I'm thinking about sticking with wax worms or something along those lines.
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What would yall suggest for brook trout in a dam that almost never gets fished...Just remember they are not stalked so I don't k
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we used to fish browns under a dam a couple years back, until the whole town figured out what we were doing. we started with fatheads and had good luck, then 1 day the bait store was out so we bought walleye suckers. man did we get some hogs. we would cast up into the foam pools and reel in just fast enough to keep up with current. plain hook up front with a treble trailer hooked in the tail.
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I'm a little confused on where you're fishing. My first thought was the pond above a beaver dam.
If that's the case, I've had my best luck using either a 500 SuperDuper (switch among gold, copper, and chrome), a 00 Mepps (again gold, copper, and silver), or half of an unweighted nightcrawler hanging from a strike indicator -- all on 2# fluorocarbon.
I've also found beaver pond fishing more productive when I keep my profile low or disguise my silhouette in the bushes and step lightly. I've had luck approaching really big dams from the downstream side and casting over the dam while keeping my head below the top of the dam. You snag all kinds of things doing that if you don't know the pond well, but occasionally you're well rewarded, tricking the wise, old monster of the pond into striking!! I once stuck my head up above the top of a dam (was about 5 or 6 feet high) too soon and watched a absolutely HUGE brookie (had to be approaching 20 inches which is nearly unheard of here in CO) turn from my gold SuperDuper he was following and slowly swim away into the darkness of the pond!!
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