| High water can be a springtime delight or peril for | | | | rigged minnow through a fishing pond or pool. Then, it's |
| serious trout anglers and sports fisherman. . During | | | | just a waiting game for that big strike. |
| springtime fishing you can count on cold bank full water | | | | Trout activity may well seem to lessen as short term |
| whether it is the upper Midwest, northeast or up in | | | | flooding peaks. However do not give up or despair. |
| Canada. On top of that a sudden rain shower or spring | | | | You can almost count on a second run of a feeding |
| thunderstorm can add to the extra water and add to | | | | cycle for the trout. It often occurs just as the flood |
| the fishing mix. What to do to make the most and the | | | | waters drop within the period of time just before the |
| best of the situation? | | | | water fully clears. This time interval for the trout |
| First of all if you do see streams starting to flood form | | | | fisherman can almost be like a bonanza fishing period - |
| a sudden rain shower or thunderstorm - then its time | | | | a true "golden time". |
| to get out that fishing rod. Especially in the case of | | | | If there is one word of advice for both lives struggles |
| trout fishing its that first interval of rising water that will | | | | as well as that of the sports fisherman it is "go with |
| possibly your best shot of the year at that trophy killer | | | | the flow". When the abnormally high flows from spring |
| trout fish. Trout fishing experts have shared the | | | | runoff are pushing rocks down the riffles, where trout |
| secrets that often the very best time of the year for | | | | usually hold and wait, the trout tend to move out "of |
| those wily trout when the very first intervals of rising | | | | the way". These edges of riffle will become your |
| water emerge, that is those rare and great time points | | | | prime trout lies. Watch out for prime trout fishing areas |
| that happen just as the streams starts to go off-color | | | | where the trout fish may hold and wait behind what |
| with silt. | | | | are now newly submerged rocks and along grassy |
| It seems that as the water level goes up and the | | | | stream banks. In addition other good high quality high |
| water become cloudy, trout become more than | | | | water areas include the insides of river bends where |
| unusually aggressive. On top of that it can be said that | | | | the current has less power and force and where the |
| seldom is a trout a passive fish. Not only do these | | | | silt, sticks and leaves accumulate to the bottom. |
| trout fish seem to sense and influx of food and | | | | Work and rework these areas by carefully a drifting a |
| feeding stock for them brought by the flooding, but | | | | nymph or wet fly. Worm fisherman often fined that |
| also the somewhat murky water give them a great | | | | they do best by keeping their bait moving slowly and |
| sense of security from predators. You can almost bet | | | | consistently along the bottom. Rig a split shot or two |
| that old wise old brown trout that somehow knew | | | | about a foot above your bait, cast upstream, and let |
| more than well enough to elude, hide and stay far | | | | the wonders of the water's current roll these worms |
| away from your fishing gear last summer can now | | | | along the bottom as you feel the gentle tick-tick-tick of |
| well be in your sights and on your fishing line both from | | | | your split shot moving along those rocks. |
| a new found feeling of invulnerability as well as even | | | | Rising water can be and is often the very best time of |
| that trout fish's own greed and hunger. Scrip a big | | | | year to catch those killer trophy trout fish for serious |
| streamer fly, toss a larger Rapala or slowly roll a | | | | fisherman as well as sports anglers. |