
I cast to near, or just belong where I suspect the fish will be holding.

Advertisementsįundamentally Kastmasters are among the easiest lures to fish, they cast like a bullet and sink at a consistent weight. You can jig them, cast them and catch most predatory fish on them. They can be fish fast, slow, close to the surface or along the bottom. I consider the Kastmaster to be one of the most versatile lures around. If I have to describe a kastmaster, it would be as a simple metal lure which casts a mile. I have caught hundreds of fish and spent nearly as many hours fishing them. Their food preferences are similar to those of other trout.I learnt to spin fish using kastmaster, or at least a very similar lure. They have “hybrid vigor,†a trait often seen in crossbred plants and animals. Golden rainbows and palomino rainbows grow larger and faster than regular rainbows. Spawning in the wild is unlikely, because golden rainbows are highly visible in streams both to anglers and predators like blue herons and ospreys. Life history: The golden rainbow is reared in fish culture stations. No rainbow trout or golden rainbows are planted in the Lake Erie watershed. It is stocked throughout the state in appropriate trout waters. Habitat: The golden rainbow trout’s habitat preferences are identical to those of the normally colored rainbow trout.

The Pennsylvania record golden rainbow trout is over 13 pounds. There is no spotting on the body or fins. Identification: Golden rainbows are a deep golden-yellow in body color, with pinkish lower fins, pink or red tones on their cheeks and with the rainbow’s reddish lateral stripe. In fish hatcheries, the rainbow trout has occasionally produced other unusual genetic mutations, such as the blue rainbow trout, whose body color is sky-blue. The golden rainbow trout is a different species than the golden trout (Oncorhynchus aguabonita) of some California streams. Although palominos were stocked as both average-sized and large trout, today’s golden rainbow is raised only to trophy size for anglers and stocked throughout the state. Since then, the genetic strain in Pennsylvania has weakened, but in recent years the hybrid was selectively bred back closer to the stronger, better-colored golden rainbow trout. Palomino trout were first stocked in Pennsylvania in 1967. In 1963, this fish strain was popularized as the “West Virginia Centennial Golden Trout.†Pennsylvania and other states hybridized the pure strain of West Virginia golden trout with normal rainbows and produced palomino trout, which were true genetic palominos. Through selective breeding with regularly marked rainbow trout, an all-gold, golden rainbow trout was developed. She was found in the West Virginia hatchery system in 1954. The golden rainbow was developed from one fish, a single female trout with a genetic mutation that gave her a mixed golden and normal rainbow trout coloration. The golden rainbow trout is a gold-orange rainbow trout raised under artificial fish culture conditions and stocked as a novelty for angling sport. I think they come from Crystal Springs Hatchery near Cassville, at least they used to, have not seen the stock truck in several years.


These are golden rainbow trout, not "real" golden trout, they are just an offshoot of the rainbow.
