brown trout

[neil cooney 10,416]

No Mustard, I've never fished Melvin.

I didn't get out this weekend.

[HuntandFish 31]

This year for the first time I made a little minnow trap and have been using fresh minnow to catch brownies on a trout river that's on my doorstep.

I never tried minnow before as bait.I usually fish the fly. All Winter I've been watching a good trout lieing under a Whitethorn and this years first cast was to him. I landed a minnow on his nose and he was 2 ounces short of 2 lbs. That's a big fish for this river.

So I've been catching some nice wild fish on the minnow recently and I let it slip to a mate who normally only fishes the fly.

Last week he won the competition with 2 good wild fish. He left his fly rod at home and used the minnow.

 

neil would you be prepared to share a design for the minnow trap? Fished the live minnow years aog, one thing I remeber is that the takes were violent, nothing like the take on fly worm or even spinner.

[neil cooney 10,416]

I just made a minnow trap out of 2 2 litre coke bottles. There's plenty of designs on You-Tube.

I just put a strip of lead along the bottom of it and punctured plenty of holes in it to sink it quickly.

Using bread as bait and putting it in a small stream nearby I can catch a dozen minnows in an hour or so.

It's illegal to use a live fish as bait in Ireland but even if it was legal I wouldn't do it. But the minnow does need to be very fresh and if presented well is very effective.

And your right, the takes do be good and fast.

I plan on targeting a nearby canal this Summer that I know has big perch and again it'll be the minnow I'll be using.

[Tiny 7 1,694]

Bit off topic here but, The gamekeeper next door always gives me a brace of rainbow trout this time of yr weekly, And to be honest i dont like them iv tryed them fryed in butter and oil in the frying pan and iv done them in the oven in tinfoil with salt/pepper butter and a bit of lemon,

 

Anyone got a decent recipes for them, As i just feed them too the dogs if im honest

Tiny if your cooking trout by that method and don't like it then maybe trout is not for you. That's usually a real tasty way to cook trout.

Is the river or lake the trout was caught in muddy or maybe recently stocked ?

A nice trout usually doesn't need much fuss made of it to be delicious.

That might be cause everyone iv spoke too about diffrent ways of cook all never mind make things complicated just fry in a little oil and butter, Or as i say a tinfoil parcel with just a touch of seasoning and a knob of butter

 

 

There all caught out of a big reservoir

[Mustard. 83]

Bit off topic here but, The gamekeeper next door always gives me a brace of rainbow trout this time of yr weekly, And to be honest i dont like them iv tryed them fryed in butter and oil in the frying pan and iv done them in the oven in tinfoil with salt/pepper butter and a bit of lemon,

 

Anyone got a decent recipes for them, As i just feed them too the dogs if im honest

Tiny if your cooking trout by that method and don't like it then maybe trout is not for you. That's usually a real tasty way to cook trout.

Is the river or lake the trout was caught in muddy or maybe recently stocked ?

A nice trout usually doesn't need much fuss made of it to be delicious.

That might be cause everyone iv spoke too about diffrent ways of cook all never mind make things complicated just fry in a little oil and butter, Or as i say a tinfoil parcel with just a touch of seasoning and a knob of butter

 

 

There all caught out of a big reservoir

Well tiny.I know what you mean,next one you catch,try skinning it.Then cook it whatever way you fancy.

[fat man 4,741]

Always found the smaller river trout to be nicer than a lake or resevoir trout.Anyone ever tried them boiled in milk,very nice.

[HuntandFish 31]

I just made a minnow trap out of 2 2 litre coke bottles. There's plenty of designs on You-Tube.

I just put a strip of lead along the bottom of it and punctured plenty of holes in it to sink it quickly.

Using bread as bait and putting it in a small stream nearby I can catch a dozen minnows in an hour or so.

It's illegal to use a live fish as bait in Ireland but even if it was legal I wouldn't do it. But the minnow does need to be very fresh and if presented well is very effective.

And your right, the takes do be good and fast.

I plan on targeting a nearby canal this Summer that I know has big perch and again it'll be the minnow I'll be using.

 

thanks and to clarify i mean live minnow as opposed to devon minnow, in that its a real dead bait, miniature it may be. Going to get at this soon recently a 7lb brown trout was caught on a local river I would love to catch one that size.

[Mustard. 83]

Always found the smaller river trout to be nicer than a lake or resevoir trout.Anyone ever tried them boiled in milk,very nice.

Always found the smaller river trout to be nicer than a lake or resevoir trout.Anyone ever tried them boiled in milk,very nice.

Rainbow or brown fatman?

[BEARINATOR 2,867]

Always found the smaller river trout to be nicer than a lake or resevoir trout.Anyone ever tried them boiled in milk,very nice.

Always found the smaller river trout to be nicer than a lake or resevoir trout.Anyone ever tried them boiled in milk,very nice.

Rainbow or brown fatman?

 

Brown is nicer than rainbow and browns are our native wild trout

[Mustard. 83]

Always found the smaller river trout to be nicer than a lake or resevoir trout.Anyone ever tried them boiled in milk,very nice.

Always found the smaller river trout to be nicer than a lake or resevoir trout.Anyone ever tried them boiled in milk,very nice.

Rainbow or brown fatman?

 

Brown is nicer than rainbow and browns are our native wild trout

I ment,was it rainbow that you boil in milk?

[fat man 4,741]

Always found the smaller river trout to be nicer than a lake or resevoir trout.Anyone ever tried them boiled in milk,very nice.

Always found the smaller river trout to be nicer than a lake or resevoir trout.Anyone ever tried them boiled in milk,very nice.

Rainbow or brown fatman?

Either mustard,i have also cooked salmon in this manner and its also tastes very good.

[top terrierman 90]

This year for the first time I made a little minnow trap and have been using fresh minnow to catch brownies on a trout river that's on my doorstep.

I never tried minnow before as bait.I usually fish the fly. All Winter I've been watching a good trout lieing under a Whitethorn and this years first cast was to him. I landed a minnow on his nose and he was 2 ounces short of 2 lbs. That's a big fish for this river.

So I've been catching some nice wild fish on the minnow recently and I let it slip to a mate who normally only fishes the fly.

Last week he won the competition with 2 good wild fish. He left his fly rod at home and used the minnow.

 

neil would you be prepared to share a design for the minnow trap? Fished the live minnow years aog, one thing I remeber is that the takes were violent, nothing like the take on fly worm or even spinner.

i have seen my father use a large brandy bottle turn it upside down tap out the little hard piece off glass in the centre of the bottle comes out without breaking the bottle run a long strong line up throw the inside of the bottle put the cork in the top put some white bread in the bottle from the hole u broke out drop it into a spot were there is minnow the bottle sinks to the bottom when it fills up the minnows swim in from the bottom and with the shape of the bottle they cant get out pull in the bottle with ur string i have seen him get loads this way.

[Nik_B 3,790]

Rainbow taste earthy to me...I never take them anymore

[MUDD 374]

Rainbow taste earthy to me...I never take them anymore

Same here

[fat man 4,741]

Rainbow taste earthy to me...I never take them anymore

I think it depends on the water there in,a lot of places that hold rainbows are usually unused quarrys or small lakes but rainbow that are released in large lakes and get a couple of year in them are delicious.