10-28 SS Fall Brown

 Well it is fall and hunting season has begun so you may be thinking trout season is over. Not so says Josh Mills.

 Our resident outdoorsman with a very highly tuned talent for fly fishing is telling us that even though summer and early fall are great for trout fishing, there may be a late fall Brown in your future. “Fall in my sporting life is the greatest time of year.  You’ve got steelhead, you’ve got upland birds, you’ve got deer and elk. But this is one time of the year you don’t want to put your trout rods away. If you get the opportunity to go to a river where there are Brown’s, they are a late fall spawning fish. In the fall if you can get on a drift boat what you need to do is get out and sling some streamers, big ugly, nasty flies that get down and get to these aggressive, pre-spawn  brown trout. You’ll get some of the biggest fish of the year and my tip to you is to get a big nasty gross looking streamer fly and you end up catching browns that you don’t ever see and you will not catch on a dry fly. These are  meet eaters. These are boys that sit down in the cut banks and the deep boulder gardens that you might see every blue moon but these other ones that are caught on streamers and this is the best time of year to do it. Get yourself a streamer and maybe a little sink tip and get out your 6, 7, 8 lightweight rods and sling some meat at these fish because sometimes it can result in a gigantic hook up and a battle with a fish that you just don’t ever see. Give it a try.