Trout like this brown won't move fast to eat something this time of year.
When the day temps drop I don't feel like moving around too fast. My favorite winter sport, if you can call it that, is sitting indoors where it's warm and cozy and tying flies.
So it's easy for me to sympathize with how a trout feels when it gets cold. They get sluggish and don't move around much as the water temps drop.
A trout hanging under the shade of a midsummer foam line will break ranks to chase a minnow several feet in order to eat it.
One such day I watched Chris Rockhold throw a sculpin pattern at the narrow band of water pillowed against a log. We were drifting the raft through the...
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