Trout Fishing Tips 259
For those of you who are new to trout fishing, I figured I’d write a quick guide to trout fishing, in the form of an article, with the intention of making your next trout fishing excursion as enjoyable and successful as possible. Fishing for trout can be a bit different than fishing for other species of fish, if you want to achieve any level of success that is. Trout can be a very finicky fish, and can be quite difficult to catch. After this quick article, you’ll be in a much better position than just going out to your local trout stream blind and winging it.
More than 20 years ago, I had the pleasure of being taught the nuances of trout fishing, by an angler that I’ve always considered to be a trout fishing master. I honestly don’t think master is too strong a word either. This man, who I consider my fishing mentor, had more trophy trout mounted than any person I’ve ever known, and all of these trophy trout were caught from rivers and streams in central Pennsylvania that most people only caught average trout out of. In any case, he was my fishing mentor, and this quick guide to trout fishing was born largely because of him.
My fishing mentor was a big believer in live worms as bait as well. He always said that when it comes to trout, there is no better bait than live worms. Oh, and that really large trout love live crayfish also. And when it comes to using live worms as bait, he insisted, as I do to this day, on using gang hooks to rig those live worms. You see, a set of pre-tied gang hooks is the only way to present a live worm in a completely natural manner. As a matter of fact, the idea of using a single hook to fish with worms has been completely lost on me, I just don’t understand how anyone wouldn’t employ gang hooks (once they’re introduced to them). The bottom line is that you need to use live worms when trout fishing, and those live worms need to be presented with gang hooks.
These two rivers later meet up to form the Alagnak which I discussed about earlier in this article. If you think you will have to face a lot of crowds during trout fishing season, let me tell you that these places are very much un-crowded which means you will really enjoy your fishing days without having to huddle through crowds.