Opening Day for Trout - Do you go?

[Ryan560]

Nope never been one for crowds. I get my trout fishing fix weeks before on rivers with no closed season, which has been really good lately lots of healthy stockies

[saajr]

Thats one benifit about Mass no season ecept when stocking truck is around then the bandits swarm all over the rivers.Biggest problem this year no water rivers are very low.

[fishysob]

Trout=bait! Good for kids to get their intro into fishing though.

[Ed B]

Not going never occurred to me.

When I was growing up in Mass I looked forward to opening day for trout even more than I looked forward to opening day of baseball. Probably because they let me fish for trout but never let me play for the Red Sox. When they stopped having opening day in Mass on the 3rd Sat in April, a great tradition was lost. Although you now can go whenever you want, it's still great, but not with quite the same anticipation as it once was.

Rhody's opening day is a great tradition and I always go now that I'm a RI resident. It wasn't very crowded this year where I went but the fish were nice and I met some of the same ole guys I see there every year. Not too many kids seem to go anymore and that's too bad. There were a few kids but I think most have too many other electronic distractions now.

[FishermanTim]

Funny, I've been fishing for over a month now, and I've seen more and more kids fishing. The most interesting aspect is that they are not targeting trout, but rather just wanting to catch a fish.
I spent the past couple of weekends taking my brother's kids fishing.
Main emphasis was on casting, not as much catching because that will happen on its own. They both can now cast quite comfortably and confidently. Heck, the older of the two caught a pretty good sized pickerel to boot!

The best part was when they asked me how they should work the lures for best resukts, which proved they were listening!