First Fish of 2018

For those of you outside of Texas, Texas Parks & Wildlife stocks lakes and community ponds with rainbow trout every winter. The fish aren't native and can't survive our summers; they are stocked purely for anglers to catch. The state stocked the Kilgore fish pond in Synergy Park last weekend, so I tried to catch one. There were lots of people there with the same idea, and I asked an old man how they were catching them. He said to either use corn or a nightcrawler.

It didn't take long to get a trout on a worm. I was so excited because it was my first trout. I wanted to stay longer and try to catch more species, but I still have this horrible lingering cough and didn't want to make it worse by staying out in the cold.

While this weekend will be cold, the next one is predicted to be warm. I'll try Martin Creek Lake to see what I can get.

Posted on January 13, 2018 05:40 AM by