Photo by Louis Cahill

Fall is the time when dreams of catching trophy brown trout come true.

Brown trout are fall spawners. They become increasingly aggressive and easier to target as the spawn approaches. Anglers who want to catch big browns will have their best chance, but they will have to take extra care when fishing or they may spoil their chances to fish the next generation of big browns.

This article on the ethics of fishing the spawn, by Spencer Durrant, does a great job of explaining how the fish the spawn and do no harm, as well as offering some tips on how to find and land that monster. Every angler who fishes in the fall should give it a look.

“ETHICS, SPAWNING TROUT, AND FALL FISHING – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW”