Here in Michigan the winter fishing for trout is very tough and on some rivers you have ice bank to bank. There are the steelhead rivers but you are competing
with steelhead fishers and catching a king salmon or a steelhead on 5 weight rod is a bit amusing and can seriously test your tackle for the worse. So you
other Northern guys - where do you go for good trout fishing?
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Where Do You Fish In The Winter
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 OnlyTrout |
Where Do You Fish In The Winter |
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Posts: 33 11/18/2009 09:56 |
There is no closed season in Iowa. The NE part of the state has allot of spring creeks that are open and flowing all winter long.
"I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel." Roderick Haig - Brown. |
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Posts: 73 11/18/2009 10:04 |
On the ponds. Hard water fishing.
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Posts: 347 11/18/2009 12:05 |
There is no closed season in Missouri...Trout parks are open for catch & release season Friday-Monday...and the rivers are open year round. I usually float
the Current alot in the winter, sometimes the Eleven Point, or North Fork of the White. Plus the MDC stocks dozens of urban lakes with trout in the winter
time. Our big rivers are running high at the moment, so I'll probably head out for some small spring creek wild trout fishing this weekend. Cheers.
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Posts: 3075 11/18/2009 12:20 Moderator |
Chile in January.
Closer to home are the northern Arkansas tailwaters and the Missouri spring creeks and rivers usually fish pretty well in winter. |
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Posts: 893 11/18/2009 12:57 |
Hi Guys, " If you're goin' where the snow flake falls, where rivers freeze and summer ends. Please take to her a coat so warm. To keep her from
the howling wind." Dylan........ Jay Edwards
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Posts: 1247 11/18/2009 14:38 |
Ruby Below the dam - Beaverhead at Pipe Organ access or the Missouri - all are pretty much ice free- I am looking for above freezing temps with sun and no
wind.
On the State of Missouri Fishing - I used to hit Taneycomo in February - I remember the first catch and release season in the parks and not seeing a dozen anglers on the water. That has all changed - one of the reasons I choose to live in Montana |
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Posts: 136 11/18/2009 14:58 |
gmflyfish - Beaverhead at Pipe Organ - I love that spot but did not know that it was open in the winter. Hey Drew - I meant - in this country!!! But I will go to Patagonia with you if you fly me there - ha ha
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Posts: 784 11/18/2009 16:47 |
Here in Utah I fish the Provo, but only on days when the guides don't freeze up. Jim
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Posts: 313 11/18/2009 16:50 |
Our tailwaters in tn can offer great winter fishing (sunny day in the 40's is not too painful) usually a mix of midges and nymphs but plenty of fish
and crowds are fairly slim. In some of the deep holes you can find bigger fish less gunshy and not as pressured.
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Posts: 702 11/18/2009 17:34 |
Marty the tail-waters here in East Tn are for the most part frozen solid. There are no bugs especially on the S Ho. People would be better off looking
elsewhere.
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Posts: 314 02/09/1982 16:58 |
The Caney and Elk fish well all winter. The Caney becomes a bit more technical but 40+ fish days are the norm if you know what you're doing. I only make
it up to the soho and watauga a few times a year and have never tried to winter fish them. I fished the clinch a lot in December when I was at ut and had some
great uncrowded days there.
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cyangler |
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Posts: 101 11/18/2009 18:23 |
Tailwater again. Best fishing in winter. Deerfield produces so many large fish all year long, I won't articulate - for fear of sounding like a fish story
promulgator. The best way to fish it, like many tailwater fisheries is by floating it. I go with the Harrison brothers. Harrison Angling is what you want to
google if you are looking to fish for some serious fish in the Northeast. Massachusetts has not been touted as much as Vermont or New Hampshire or Maine or
even Connecticutt for its trout fishing but, this IS the best river this side of the Miississippi for "large" quantities of near-trophy trout. And
I've seen TROPHY trout - even had them spit my fly and run, in this river.
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Posts: 300 11/18/2009 18:31 |
Here in Indiana, there isn't much winter fishing. I go to Michigan at least once for steelhead, Erie for steelies as well and I try to head down to TN. a
time or two. My winter fishing consists largely of reading, going over gear tying flies and reading the FF-ing forums.
Pat "He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly
fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."
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Posts: 180 11/18/2009 18:38 |
Here in Missouri the same places I fish in the summer. Most of the trout water in the state is within 50 miles of me and the majority of that closer. I
don't chase warm water species in the winter.
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Posts: 1224 11/18/2009 19:01 Deeply Shallow |
As a lot of you know 4-5 of us fish the PA spring creeks all winter. this is last winter on one.
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BlackHillsBill |
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Posts: 3140 11/18/2009 19:10 |
In print. In after images. Here more often than not.
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OnlyTrout |
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Posts: 140 11/18/2009 22:23 |
BlackHillsBill, Yep - I agree - I usually do most of my fishing reading in the winter, and look at photos too. But I got to thinking about all those
"golf" guys who go south in the winter for a week of golfing and thought "why can't I do that" but fly fishing instead of golf. You
guys are giving me some great suggestions.
Drew - by going south I mean not across the border - of the US. |
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Posts: 2041 11/18/2009 22:51 Orvis Database Founder |
The streams are frequently frozen over here in southwestern Pennsylvania, but I get out whenever they're open and the roads are safe. This is a major
tributary to the Youghiogheny River:
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Posts: 165 11/18/2009 23:20 |
As Andre said the spring creeks in PA. Sometimes on warmer days those little brookie streams will do just fine. Western tailwaters in Colorado when out there
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Posts: 93 11/18/2009 23:55 |
The San Juan River below Navajo Dam all winter long. Sipping rainbows, fine tippets, and #24-#26 Kimball's Emergers, Baetis Sprouts, and Royal Renegades.
Not for the faint of heart.
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