A monster lake-run brown from Western New York. Photograph by Capt. Scott Feltrinelli, Ontario Fly Outfitters
As year-round fly fishing for trout has turn into extra in style and states have opened rivers throughout fall and spring spawning seasons, the ethics of fishing to trout on their approach to spawn has turn into an even bigger problem. There’s full settlement, in fact, that anglers ought to by no means goal fish on redds, however as Tony Bonavist writes on River Reporter, there’s much less consensus about when and the place fishing ought to be allowed.
Some people, myself included, supported and promoted extended-season trout fishing for plenty of years. Different anglers didn’t, as a result of they didn’t consider fishing ought to be allowed for lake-run trout on their journey to the spawning grounds.
Bonavist will get into the nitty-gritty particulars and analysis that assist illuminate the problems concerned.
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