Browns In the Whitecaps

The brown trout were on the prowl, taking offense at streamers in their vicinity and hammering them with a vengeance. Strikes were fast, hard, and plentiful throughout the day but things got really insane at the end of the day. The water went through three stages: morning calm, midday heavy whitecaps, and back to an evening chop and calm. The fish were active and angry in every stage pounding away at the buggers we were throwing. I managed my best brown of the year in the early morning calm.

Big early morning brown


Rolling whitecaps


Eric working the waves


Autumn colored brown trout


Another fatty from foaming waves


Evening calm