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Capt. Doug's Style of Fishing Trout Trout techniques Trout are one of the most plentiful and easiest fish to catch in our rivers. They are so aggressive that it is not uncommon for them to try to eat bait and lures their own size. Now that I have down played our sea trout I will tell you the rest of the story. Trout have about the best vision of any fish we have here. Their hearing is so good they can since even the slightest movement. The good news is these fish don't become so skittish until they put a few pounds on. It is not uncommon to catch 10 pound trout from a boat. The trick is in catching the big gators from the boat. The largest trout I have had anyone put in the boat to date is 16lb8oz. That is only 10 oz away from the world record. And to all you that say you can't catch big trout from a boat, we caught that big girl from the deck. Catching big trout is as easy catching the little ones. You just have to follow a few simple rules;
I like to kneel on the front deck a make long casts to nervous big mullet. See big trout don't want to waste their time and energy on little bites of food. They want something that is going to be the most bang for their buck. I love to tell the story a friend told me about the 28 inch trout he caught on a 4 inch top water plug. Sure 28 inches is a nice trout but but not a big gator. That's not the point. The point was that it had a 14 inch trout in its stomach. When I work a plug for big trout I like a plug that will slap or spit. I like to work it hard but slowly. That is a lot of noise but moving pretty slow. Now for the question I get asked more than any other. What is a gator trout? We call a trout a gator when she gets so big that all you see is a big gaping mouth with those fangs and sharp teeth. Over the years I have caught a good number of trout between 30 and 35 inches. However, the majority of them are under 30 inches. For this reason I only consider a trout a gator once they hit 30+ inches. Within the past few years I am starting to see more trout over 40 inches. If we start catching them all the time I may have to bump it up to 35 inches before I call them a gator.
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Capt. Doug Blanton
Copyright © 1998-2008 [Indian River Adventures]. All rights reserved.
Revised:
January 07, 2008
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