Moody Pond Is Alive!

Nome - Flygal - June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Once again Moody Pond is stocked, and it’s wonderful to see fish rising! This year we stocked half and half 12-14″ rainbow and brook trout. We also selected thirty larger (I’m not telling how large ) trout , half rainbow and the other half brown trout. We got a special deal from Sumner Brook Farm. The fish from this company are exceptionally healthy and always full of spunk.

The delivery guy accidentally dumped someone else’s fish in the pond so we got some extras in the 8-10″ size - rainbow and brookies. I felt badly for the delivery guy who had to call his boss and tell him the mistake he made. Unfortunately once they were in the pond there was no way he was getting them back! The owner Richard Prunier was very professional about it and said “it’s your lucky day”. There was no charge for the extra fish.

Many of the trout are rising clear of the water to take the natural mayflies, dragonflies and caddis off the surface…

So the pond is once again alive with fish…

Many fellow anglers were delighted to contribute to stocking this year and partake with time on the water…

It took about two weeks for the fish to key in on naturals. Before that time I could toss out anything, even a cigarette butt and they would hit it - so long as it moved. All dryflies were ignored until I stripped them in under the surface or made lots of movements.

I watched the new fish circumnavigate the pond and put everything they thought might be food into their mouths. This trial and error effort teaches the fish what’s good to eat, much like we learn as children. Through fishing the pond and observing fellow anglers I now understand how a top-producing fly can quickly go out of favor, but that’s an article for another day.

It’s funny, but before being involved in the stocking of Moody, I thought the fish in the local waters were so “educated” that they would refuse my offerings. I now know it’s all about what stocking stage they are in - the newbies are still trying to figure out what’s good to eat - and of course knowing what insects are in the waters.