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Tips for Trout Fishing

Of Browns and 'Bows
Tips for taking America's two top trouts.

Understanding Fish Foods
Knowing what trout eat and why it is key to making these predators your prey.

Flies and How to Use Them
Learning to flyfish can be daunting, but knowing your flies is a good place to start.

Finding the Fish
Everything you ever wanted to know about stalking, spotting and hooking trout with small flies.

Letting Go
Watching the fly, setting the hook, playing the trout, learning to let go, and other fine points of the art of catch and release.

Catching Trout on Sunny Days (Expert Answer)
Fishing Expert Mark Williams shares his tips for how to catch trout on those bright, hot days.

Southeast Trout Fishing

Blue Medal Waters
Five prime rivers for chasing elusive summer trout.

Trout Species of the South
For anglers in the Great Smokies, the trout have personalities as distinct as their spots.

Blue Ridge Trout
Shenandoah National Park's top three freestone mountain creeks.

Hiwassee River
Now with better management, this river near Chattanooga, Tennessee, is on its way to offering some of the best trout fishing in the U.S.

Conasauga River System
Wilderness trout fishing in western Georgia for determined anglers.

Arkansas' White River
Trophy brown trout along a wide, gentle river.

Northeast Trout Fishing

Esopus Extravaganza
The wildest rainbow trout in the Northeast, right in New York's Catskills.

NYC Weekend Angler
Head for the Croton, Beaverkill, Willowemoc, Neversink, and Mangaup Rivers.

Vermont Mountain Trout
Below the wood piles on the White River in central Vermont.

Vermont's Battenkill River
Not just another pretty river. Arguably New England's best trout stream.

Midwest Trout Fishing

Ausable River
Matching the hatch in Michigan's North Country.

Trout-Stream Flyfishing in the Upper Midwest's Golden Triangle
Angling on the Boardman, AuSable, and Manistee.

Blue Medal Waters
Five prime rivers for chasing elusive summer trout.

Wisconsin Spring Creeks
Prime trout waters in the southeast corner.

Southwest Trout Fishing

Flyfishing Verde Valley
Red rocks, a bountiful hatch and rising trout nearly year-round in Arizona.

Mountain Fork, OK
An increasingly popular, and challenging, destination.

Cimarron River
New Mexico's trout-fishing secret.

Colorado River at Lee's Ferry
Casting for trout in the shadow of red sandstone cliffs.

San Juan River
Year-round fishing for rainbows and cutthroats in northwest New Mexico.

Rocky Mountain States Trout Fishing

Blue Medal Waters
Five prime rivers for chasing elusive summer trout.

Mountain Trout: A Fish's Eye View through the Seasons
A fascinating explanation of how a trout thinks — where and how it searches for food, warmth, safety, and reproduction.

The High Lakes
Big mountain flyfishing calls for a different bag of tricks.

Utah's Green River
Arguably the best tailwater fishery in the U.S.

Montanta's Madison River
From the tip of Yellowstone: beautiful river, beautiful trout.

Golden Trout and Lightning Lake
They're down there, in the deep, clear Montana waters. Are you angler enough for 'em?

Catching Wild Cutthroats
Fishing the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park.

Trout Fishing the Rio Grande River
Solitary angling among the pines and the aspens in the Colorado Rockies.

North Platte River
This Wyoming river is capable of supporting 4,000 catchable trout per mile. We'd say the odds are good on catching one of them.

Casting in Paradise
Flyfishing the Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley is, well, paradise.

Idaho's Silver Creek
Trout fishing near Boise.

Northwest Trout Fishing

Deschutes River Trout
Strong fighters in central Oregon.

Fishing As It Really Is
The Gissberg Ponds have no scenery, no ambiance, no peace, no quiet. So why come? It's the fish, stupid.

Canadian Trout Fishing

Chasing Rainbows
Lunker Trout lurk in the Canadian Cariboo Mountains. This guy started the day catching a 22-incher!