Now I know I'm really getting into this trout fishing thing. Been watching The Masters golf tournament for 30 years but only now am I prompted to muse "Holy ****, are those fish rising in the pond at the 15th...?!"

Anyone in a position to enlighten me?


[The asterisks inserted by the forum software are for a word not dissimilar to 'carp', by the way. I do have some standards]

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I think theyr'e bass. Some big swirls as well.
Jim

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Certainly put big Phil off!

SL

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Thanks, Jim. I'm still excited, though...

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Where is Augusta?

Georgia I believe which means the swirls will most likely be Bluegill/Crappie (panfish) or Bass

Largemouth arent really known for their 'rises' as much as trout so I wonder if they were panfish then


Cheers

Ben

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Pretty sure the ponds are stocked with carp.

Walker

not sure what kind of fish are in them but do remember seeing footage of some of the golfers fly fishing in them

There are also some turtles or terrapins in the ponds which are responsible for some of the surface disturbances.

I once caught a brown of about 14" from the water feature at the 18th hole on the Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club. I'd seen a suspicion of a fish in some of the water features including this one which had been created from damming a small stream and went down late one evening with a fly rod and picked off the cruising fish.

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And there was me thinking that the combination of a sparsity of rises on Sutton Brook yesterday morning and Marstons Pedigree were causing me to hallucinate.