TristianSutton
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Why does it seem all brown streams seem to be these slightly grungy streams, that are always slightly off color
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With the current global conditions you're probably just fishing downstream of someone who wasn't able to find toilet paper. Just saying.Why does it seem all brown streams seem to be these slightly grungy streams, that are always slightly off color
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I was wondering if this thread might be an attempt at a little Brown Trout humor. If it was it got some bites...With the current global conditions you're probably just fishing downstream of someone who wasn't able to find toilet paper. Just saying.
Is that why they are called "brown" trout. :^))Why does it seem all brown streams seem to be these slightly grungy streams, that are always slightly off color
It was not, its me trying to figure out why all the high population brown trout streams I know about locally to me, all seem to have this characteristic of slightly dirty waterI was wondering if this thread might be an attempt at a little Brown Trout humor. If it was it got some bites...
Probably a measure by the local DNR to put a more hearty species in more compromised water.It was not, its me trying to figure out why all the high population brown trout streams I know about locally to me, all seem to have this characteristic of slightly dirty water
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None of the streams are stocked all are wild populationsProbably a measure by the local DNR to put a more hearty species in more compromised water.
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No i fish almost exclusively on freestone streams, personally never cared for tail racesTS, Are you fishing tailwaters bellow hydro release dams? That may account for turbidity.
Bigfly, I have a story relative to yours. Silver Creek in Idaho is a perfect trout habitat; constant flow and temperature year round and fecund. Rainbows were stocked there many decades ago and continue to come in via feeder creek home to a State rainbow hatchery. In fact it is the example I used during the Trout Pandemic of Whirling Disease. No whirling disease on Silver Creek where the habitat was just perfect while on low, warm water Colorado rivers or the Madison that had suffered sever spawning habitat destruction, rainbow numbers were way down. Its habitat I said, don't raise money to fight a disease or ban felt soles, intact legislation to protect the habitat.
Any way, browns were not exactly stocked there but in the middle of the night a man of note dumped a bucket full of little brown trout into the Conservancy water. Shocking reveals that browns now constitute some 40% of the spring creeks population and specimens up to 10 pounds have been shocked. However, browns represent a small proportion of anglers' catches. You may catch rainbows all day but only if you fish into the late dusk do you fare better with the browns. Also, the bows will feed on current seams out in the open and that sip in the shadows of the cut bank...that is a brown.
Browns were introduced in North America in the 1880's but never domesticated well, unlike rainbows. Though non-native, stream bred browns retain their cagy, wild characteristics and though I love them both, browns of size are often more rewarding to feed a dry fly to.