Even if you do get permission I wouldn’t keep the fish. Most golf courses use a fairly large number of fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides and herbicides to maintain that perfect look. Guess what’s in those ponds on the golf course.

There are as many answers to this as people who fish for bass. Technique, lure, rod, reel, depth weeds all factor into this equation.

Dominant hand gets the work, cast , jig, retrieve etc. Rod stays in the right. Left hand cranks that is it.

I fish trout rivers with lots of snags . I returned to fishing about 5 years ago. Snags were common . So was catching squirrels . Solved the squirrel catching by investing in waders, using ultralight 5.5 rod and learning to side arm cast with a wrist flick. Waders let’s you into the stream. If I fish with a spinner, I use a single hook. Cast upstream and retrieve fast enough to keep the spinner off the bottom. If you do snag, slack the line , wade up stream 99% of the time once you are stream it will pop free. If I fish with mouse tails, nuggets or bait, use a modified drop shot . Three way swivel, floating line (mono) to the hook with the bait. The other line goes to a simple split shot or two. The split shot holds the rig to the bottom and the bait floats on the mono above bottom. If the split shots get snag a quick pull will slide them of the line and the rig comes free. If you do this please use tin (lead free shot) to protect birds and the environment .

8 trout. I am jealous. ! Nice job !

I have a small suv. I use rod socks, stretch out the cargo cover. Rods go in tip first , the 7 footers reach the dashboard. Rods either rest on the top of the front seat back or in the well between the door and the seat. .Reels lay on top of cargo cover. Works pretty well. Rod socks keep the rods from sliding around and offer some degree of protection except when they get slammed in a door.

90 percent of the water I fish for trout is C&R most of the year. During the keep season , it it’s a native Brookie it goes back. Rainbows and Browns get kept if they about 12 inches . The creel limit is two trout in most of waters I fish. The important part of keeping a fish is kill it quickly. A solid rap with a blunt object on the back of the head is the best way. Then put it on ice. Quickly. Don’t let the fish flop around till it suffocates out of the water. If you can’t kill it immediately, then a stinger through the lip not through the mouth and gill will keep the fish alive for awhile in the water. That is my tactic while kayak fishing

Likewise in the entire Northeast. CT requires an additional stamp if you fish waters with stocked trout. The fee goes to the hatcheries . Next year I will technically not need a license but even the license fee goes to fisheries and wildlife management so as a way of supporting the fishery I will likely still buy an annual license . It’s about the cost of respooling two trout rods with fluorocarbon. Less than I spend on breakfast, coffee, bait and gas for one weekend of fishing .