Rainbow Trout(Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Quick Facts

  • Size Range: Native Rainbow trout generally range from 1 to 5 pounds in streams/rivers and up to 20 pounds in lake habitats. Louisiana stocked trout are generally around 1 pound.
  • Native Species?: No
  • Food Value: Fair

Only stocked in Community Fishing Program Ponds.

Body heavily spotted all the way to the tips of a slightly forked tail. Back usually dark olive transitioning to silvery-white underneath with a pink/red stripe running lengthwise along the fish’s sides.

Native to North America west of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to Mexico. They have been introduced/stocked into most, if not all, states in the union.

Hot Louisiana summer temperatures prevent reproduction and, in most cases, over summer survival. Louisiana Rainbow Trout are primarily used in wintertime put and take fisheries where fish are stocked in small ponds for urban angler enjoyment.

Fishing Methods
Conventional Tackle under a bobber or tight lined using worms, marshmellows, powerbait, meal worms, crickets

Fly Fishing using nymphs, streamers, and dries as fish transition from a diet of pellet feed to natural food items available in ponds

Rainbow Trout Rules and Regulations

Special Rules : Regulations are specific to the waterbody they are stocked in. Check for signage at the park stating pond regulations.

Spotted Seatrout (Speckled Trout) Click to Toggle

12” minimum total length, 25 fish per person daily bag limit. EXCEPT: 15 fish daily bag and possession limit, with no more than two spotted seatrout exceeding 25” total length, regardless of where taken in a defined area of Cameron and Calcasieu parishes located in southwestern Louisiana. The defined area, including coastal territorial waters, is as follows: south of Interstate 10 from its junction at the Texas-Louisiana boundary eastward to its junction with Louisiana Highway 171, south to Highway 14, south to Holmwood, and then south on Highway 27 through Gibbstown, south to Louisiana Highway 82 at Creole and south on Highway 82 to Oak Grove, then due south to the western shore of the Mermentau River, following this shoreline south to the junction with the Gulf of Mexico, and then due south to the limit of the state territorial sea.

 

 

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