Trout fishing for bass

**GrahamS** · 03-09-09

Originally Posted by White Squall

I've seen bass and trout take the same fly, but this past weekend I saw a first for me. Fishing a trout stillwater in the Midlands that has some bass in it, I decided to focus on the bass for a while, using a fairly large garish yellow bass popper, on the second cast a cruising trout came up off the bottom and smashed the popper. Is this fairly common, I didn't think trout would go for a popper.

Trout eat fairly large frogs and lizards, so I think a popper would definitely look like food to them. A trout I caught at Highmoor had a small snake in it's belly.

I had a similar experience on Sterkies while popping for bass. As nice SM yellow decimated the popper and took off like the wind. I was rather surprised when I landed it!

**Michael** · 03-09-09

Originally Posted by GrahamS

Trout eat fairly large frogs and lizards, so I think a popper would definitely look like food to them. A trout I caught at Highmoor had a small snake in it's belly.

I had a similar experience on Sterkies while popping for bass. As nice SM yellow decimated the popper and took off like the wind. I was rather surprised when I landed it!

Wait till that largie slams your popper at Sterkies....