A suggestion for early season trout anglers looking for good fishing tips is to pay a lot of attention to the little brooks which later in the year will be too low for successful fishing.

During the winter spawning season big trout often move into small branches of streams and, if water conditions permit, remain there until spring, moving back into the bigger waters only when the stream level falls dangerously as the season progresses.

Even if no lunker trout are to be found, the average angler will find much more pleasure fishing for the comparatively smaller fish in the little streams than exploring the often wild and forbidding waters of the larger trout creeks and rivers.

Another suggestion from a list of early season trout fishing tips is based on larvae and nymphs being abundant in all good streams and that these make up a major portion of the food supply of trout in the first months of the spring. For one thing, such food is easier to obtain. Also, there are few natural insects in evidence on the surface. These facts make it obvious that nymph fishing is at its very best in early spring.

The nymph usually is fished near the bottom, where rocks and other obstructions slow down the current of the stream and where trout like to feed without having to battle the force of rushing water.

Also, check up on the big fish brought in during the early weeks of the season, and you’ll discover that an amazing percentage of them are caught by fishermen using live minnows. That does not mean, however, that the angler who uses artificial lures has to bow out of the competition.

There are two artificial lures that specifically imitate minnows. They are bucktails and streamers. And the angler who skillfully works a lure of this type has just as much chance of taking a lunker as has the expert with the live minnow.

Bucktails and streamers, incidentally, are top-ranking big trout lures all through the season. They will continue to take fish even during the hot, dry months of the year, when the bait angler has a hard time getting good, lively minnows and keeping them alive once he has them.

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