Tips To Find Trout Faster

Riffles

Riffles with rock or gravel bottoms might well be called the cafeterias of a trout stream. For in such water the fish find most of the nymphs, larvae, and other natural food they require. Such forage, when dislodged from the bottom, also is carried by the riffles into the heads of stream pools.

Trout habitually enter the riffles to feed, or else take stations at the point where a riffle flattens out to form a stream pool, and the slowed-down current drops food it is carrying.

The angler must remember, however, that a feeding trout does not necessarily range all over a stream riffle. Because it wishes to avoid as much as possible any physical exertion except the actual taking of food, the trout foraging in a riffle is most likely to be found in areas where rocks or bars break the flow of the current.

Good Fish Locator

Want a good fish locator the next time you go angling?

Try a streamer or bucktail.

Particularly in a large stream, where there is a considerable expanse of water for the angler to work, locating fish is not always an easy problem. Under such conditions tie a streamer or bucktail to the leader and work the most likely spots carefully. Watch for signs of a fish darting after the lure as it is retrieved.

It may be that the fish will turn back without actually striking, but its pursuit of the locator lure in the water will reveal its hiding place, which the angler then can fish with different lures.

No other lure a fisherman can use will trick a trout into revealing its presence as effectively as will a bucktail or streamer.

Saving Fishing Time

Time is precious for the average angler. He has a day at best, but more likely only a few hours, to devote to his sport during any one angling expedition.

So it pays to save time by spending the first half hour or so, if it takes that long, in finding out where the fish are located at the particular time the fishing is being done.

Fish every inch of the first stretch of water. If the trout are in the riffles, concentrate on that type of water in the hours ahead. If they are in the tails of pools, or in shallow but swift-moving glides, devote the major fishing time to that kind of water.

Beware, of course, of a change in feeding tactics. While it is a general rule that trout in any given stream will be found in the same types of water at any one time, it also is true that, for some reason or other, they will shift their attention during the course of a day.