Jeb,

No real secret to catch a palomino at all. If you find one all you need is Patience and alot of it.Maybe a bit of luck as well. Seriously how many people can drift to the same fish many hundreds of times without giving up? both that I landed this year took me many hours of cast after cast to finaly get to hit and were both in deep holes. There are times when I swear that them fish are 1000 times smarter than an average trout.While I have seen them caught on just about every bait, lure and fly by far the best have been waxworms and #12 beadhead phesant tail nymphs. the one I posted the pic of was caught on a phesant tail nymph and the one yesterday was on a brownie sac. both fish I had tossed everything I had at , and both pretty much put me into a total panic attack trying to muster up the Patience need to get them to bite.Them palominos are mean nasty tight lipped son of a $%&$* but all worth it when you finaly land one..My opening day one took me 8 straight hrs of fishing the same hole just to get and the one yesterday took no less then 3 striaght hrs. If you get one you are ether very lucky or seriously hardcore Patience..

Nice fish Tom. They are tough to catch when you see them no doubt.

Where is west Vagina, that sounds like my type of place!

Best thing I ever found for goldens is Velveeta cheese.

Tom,
I know, I know, I just got bad luck with them. Went out last night and got 19, one real big & fat 15" bow. I saw a kid catch a 23-25" bow that was pretty thick too. Sorry I didn't call, got tied up with the kids when I got home. Well tight lines to all

Jeb

I didnt use a centerpin to catch theses...(hopefully my pic shows up)They were swimming around in a hole right behind camp...I watched guys were messing with them all day...Caught both of them once and they got off both times...They were hanging around and under a fallen tree...I gave up on them once - got tired of getting hung up 100 times...
 
Went back up to camp...ate...Waited till All the dudes left...grabbed a few beers and walked back down...Tried a different tactic and bam....got em both...Both were released...a blast indeed...Hopefully some kid comes back and catches them...
 
I only caught one once before about 10 years ago...Sorry phone pic is kinda crappy...

I think it mostly has to do with the rarity why people want them so much. I used to do the same thing with the catch and kill everyone I found for the same reason you do but this year I have been a bit nicer and let 2 of the 3 I got go..below is my 3rd of the year this one is for you Jeb...

Stillhead,


I think what is going on is even though they got a more true bread of the goldens aka palominos they still are a rainbow and will make regular or halfway inbetween no matter how hard they try..I read once when they bread them that they got 50% good deep colored goldens 25% golden/rainbow(like the one spoony got) and 25% regular rainbow. I have in the past caught more then a few off colored ones as well even though the vast majority of them had good color. Landed one back in the mid 90's the back look an off light green but sides were yellow and it had alot of white spots on it..weird looking fish for sure..

nice trout fsrman.

Very nice fish..Here's one i caught out of brokenstraw a few years ago..30" 11 lbs..

Tom just called me at work, he got 3 more palominos today !!!!
What a jerk.. LOL !!!!! He couldn't wait for me to see his post !!! So I beat him to it. If i can't catch them, I'll post about his B4 he can. I'll try to scan & post the photo of the one I got when I was just a kid.

ORIGINAL: spoonchucker

"Seriously how many people can drift to the same fish many hundreds of times without giving up? both that I landed this year took me many hours of cast after cast to finaly get to hit"

I'm sorry, but I have to wonder about someone who would pound on a single fish for hours. I've seen some beautiful fish in the water, that I would truly love to catch. I have never seen one that I felt such a NEED to catch. Several casts with 4-5 different baits, tells me it's time to move on, to active fish. 

Spoonie, I've always agreed with your thoughts on most things, but you seem to be contradicting yourself here . You said the ones you got this year took you "many hours of cast after cast". The next sentance you go on about guys who pressue a single for hours on end, ??????
I'm not bashing you Spoon, just trying to figure out your thoughts !!!!

ORIGINAL: spoonchucker

I was quoting Eggsac, not saying I spent hours drifting to one fish. It's not an attack on him as a person. I just wonder about the motivation behind such a NEED to catch an individual fish.

Spoony,

My motivation is plain and simple that I can care less about catching tons of fish ( exception: panfish) I want quality over quanity and a good challenge. I have plaied the numbers game so many times its not funny and its not a challange anymore. Trout under normal conditions are not rocket science to catch and can get a bit boring at times. I just love the challange of catching bigger and more rare fish. We each have our own vices and that is one of mine. Plus I think the palominos/ golden rainbows are realy neat fish. To me catching one 15 plus inch trout is better than catching 100 average size ones.

ORIGINAL: JEB

Tom just called me at work, he got 3 more palominos today !!!!
What a jerk.. LOL !!!!! He couldn't wait for me to see his post !!! So I beat him to it. If i can't catch them, I'll post about his B4 he can. I'll try to scan & post the photo of the one I got when I was just a kid.

Here are 3 ok sized palominos I hit today and finaly did not have to fish forever to get them..Spent about 3 hrs on the stream hit these 3 plus 2 nice 15 in rainbows 1 brookie 15 range an assorment of smaller trout.

To each his own I guess. Personally, if I had to pound a fish for 3+ hours to catch it, I wouldn't consider it much of an accomplishment. I am pretty sure that I could make a foulshot blindfolded in less than 3 hours.

http://forums.fishusa.com/albumtn.aspx/tn_9247-E0C6BCAE9F254E2D985BFA21864365E0.jpg
 
Tom see if you can post this pic & resize, I'm stupid