Posts tagged 'Lakes'

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Mark the middle of September on your calendar and make plans to hit the closest trout lake for an astounding feeding frenzy. Every September around the middle of the month backswimmers and their close cousins the water boatmen go on a fall migration. 

Every year around early to mid November I make my pilgrimage to a couple chosen lakes for some of the best brook trout fishing of the year. At first ice, brookies will be spawning, normally in shallow water over gravel beds if available. Barring that, they will pick any suitable shoreline, set up shop in two to six feet of water and have at it. This is great for fishing because we can drill a bunch of shallow holes and if they’re around we’ll see them swimming under our toes.

It’s fall and this is the one time of year I’ll specifically go out looking for brookies. They’re preparing to spawn in the lakes and there will generally be very few people on the water even though fishing should be very good.

October is not the month typically thought of as a brown trout month, but October has been my best month for catching big browns.