We have a similar situation that occurs here in BG with the stocking of 3 Springs lake. One thing that I have found from stocking the elusive stocked trout for many years (Originally Posted by walkeraviator
) is that they love to rise, especially in lakes. What I do, if I'm fishing from the shore, is I will walk around the bank looking for rises....once I spot one, I will cast my dry w/dropper setup at it. If you land anywhere near the rise, you more than likely will catch the fish. Good dries to use for that setup are Wulffs, Renegades, terrestrials...pretty much any larger dry that you can see well on the surface since you will be using it mainly as a strike indicator for your dropper fly. Stocked trout LOVE beadhead anything! So for the dropper, utilize a bh pheasant tail or bh hares ear around a size 14 or so. Give yourself around 3 feet of tippet between the two flies.
Idealy, if you can get out in the water on a canoe or little jon boat, you can fish more effectively with bh buggers or the same dry w/dropper setup. BH white buggers are good for stockers, as well as the usuals...brown, black, and olive. If you are going to fish a bugger, don't forget to tie on a dropper 12" behind it...something like a #12 bh hares ear. Very effective.
I third what the Tim & the Colonel said about casting. You'll get the hang of it. Good luck!
-Rich
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