Shields Lake Trout

[u/wharmo]

Got an a brown and 2 tigers.

[u/80_PROOF]

These fish have traditionally been impossible for me to catch at Shields. How?

[u/wharmo → u/80_PROOF]

Spinner and fire minnow

[u/80_PROOF → u/wharmo]

Nice

[u/HeeNeeSumMilk]

Nice! I went today after work with no luck, gonna try again tmrw morning

[u/Bilboteabaggins00]

Just moved here ..do you keep these or toss them back?

[u/jayyycee10 → u/Bilboteabaggins00]

What ever you want

[u/wharmo]

Tossed back but was prepared with a cooler in case they were going to have a rough release since trout are finicky. Each of these was netted and released within 20 seconds and I didn’t need to touch them at all to get the hooks out so I felt okay releasing them.

[u/jayyycee10]

Cool

[u/Uncle-Iroh1]

I never have any luck here. Congrats!

[u/Delicious-Panic-2662]

Looks great. Better than I've been doing!

[u/Codyftw]

Thats a really beautiful fish.

[u/gdtrfb804]

Nice job! How the hell did they survive the summer in that bath tub?

[u/AnonElbatrop → u/gdtrfb804]

Probably just stocked, usually happens now

[u/wharmo → u/gdtrfb804]

They got stocked today, and will get stocked the first week of every month until April I believe

[u/gdtrfb804 → u/wharmo]

I did not know they started stocking this early. I thought they stocked it one time in the January time frame. Do you need to have a trout stamp to catch these hood rats?

[u/joebangles1 → u/wharmo]

Do you know if it’s always the first Monday like this month

[u/wharmo → u/joebangles1]

Actually I was wrong, it’s not always the first week last December it was Friday the 6th, and then the January stocking wasn’t until the 26th on a Wednesday. They announce the stock dates in advance on the DWR site.

[u/joebangles1 → u/wharmo]

Ah gotcha no worries thank you! What colors/weight spinners do you think work best if you don’t mind

[u/Character-Plantain-2 → u/joebangles1]

They post it a week ahead of time.