Pond Boss Forums FISH & FISHING Fly Fishing & Other Fish Species Long-time stocked rainbows

4corbersPuddle, thanks for the reply.
To be honest, I would like to try to target them with lures or soft plastics, I don't enjoy that much fishing with live bait. Anyway, I will keep on trying. I do suspect that some more died since here the water gets pretty warm in the summer (surface temp around 90degrees), but the pond is big and pretty deep so I think there is a good chance that several trouts are still alive. I don't feed them. Years ago I was managing another pond and we put trout in the pond each year in October. It was a lot smaller and shallower than this one, so conditions during the summer were even tougher, but I remember catching a nice RT in September fishing for carp on the bottom with corn. I will try again and keep you updated, I'll stick with lures anyway.
On the net I read that after they are stocked in a pond,trouts tend to keep on swimming pretty much anywhere in the pond, usually close to the surface, because they were accustomed to that in the hatchery. Then after time they start to re-adopt some of the habits of wild trouts.