Rainbow Trout

Pros: An excellent fighting fish, and a challenge to find.
Cons: None

Fishing for Rainbow Trout is one of the most superb pastimes, that I have! Cooking and eating a Rainbow is also fun, as well as delicious! Fishing is also a great way to spend time with your family. I started teaching my daughter to fish when she ...

Pros: Just go fishing
Cons: Absolutely none

I don't need my alarm this morning, the sun has not risen yet, and I am in the garage getting my trout fishing gear ready. I can see my breath, and my anticipation makes it hard to take the time to take a sip of coffee. Fishing for wild trout is an ...

Pros: Taste
Cons: Rare

I am not an expert on Rainbow Trout but I can tell you a good story about them. They are rare outside of the western states and native Rainbow Trout are even more rare than that, if that’s possible. I remember the first Rainbow Trout I caught. It was...

Pros: The great outdoors,family and a little challenge what more could a person want.
Cons: Messy

I am a big Trout fan, fishing and eating. It took me many years to learn the correct and incorrect ways of doing things though. Being a city boy and all it took me a little longer then most kids to learn. So I picked up most of my knowledge in my later...

Pros: Majestic fish to catch. Legendary.
Cons: Not a good eating as the legend predicts.

The mighty, yet elusive Rainbow Trout. By the way, this fish is partly where I recieved my nickname from :)

It was 1987 when I first went fishing for rainbows. A small river near my hometown of Perth, the mighty Murray River. I was...

Pros: Cheap, and easily adaptable to conditions
Cons: Casting it takes practice

I've always been fascinated with the pursuit of big trout. I mean BIG trout, the kind you see hanging out on magazine covers but can never find when you're actually fishing.

The problem with catching big trout stems from the fact that they...

Pros: Good fishing
Cons: I can't get there often enough

Deep in the heart of south central Kentucky is the Cumberland River. The stretch between the Wolf Creek Dam at Lake Cumberland and the Tennessee line is replete with good numbers of brown and rainbow trout. The epicenter of big-trout water on this...

Pros: Effective. Re-usable in most cases. Relatively inexpensive.
Cons: Loss of scent after a while. (Which seems to accompany a lack of hits.)

Just in case you didn't know it, the Arkansas river is the most visited river in the world. That's what they say anyhow. I just happen to live in Pueblo, Co and I fish the Arkansas religiously. Well, maybe not religiously, but a lot. It runs right...

Pros: Lots of fun, good fight at times.
Cons: Can be trying at times waiting for a bite.

After over 40 years of hunting trout all over the world I am ready to share a few of the tricks for these elusive little fish.

To me anything under 18 in is little, even if it's a fresh stocky. With some of my tricks I've reached our state...

Pros: Lots of fun.
Cons: Can get boring waiting sometimes.

I guess it's time I write another tip for all you fishermen and fisherwomen.

Trolling for trout. Again I recommend that you go with the ultralight equipment. This gives you a better feel and a lot more fun in reeling in the fighters.
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Pros: Fun to catch and great to eat.
Cons: Slippery and disrespectful.

(A fish out of water.) Can be a difficult thing to handle. Especially if that fish happens to be a trout. Unlike most gamefish, trout lack any realistic scaling on their bodies which make them as slippery as, well, an eel, or a catfish. When fishing for...

Pros: Fun to catch, tasty too
Cons: slippery little guys

Want to take your children fishing with you? Then I have just the place for you! It's called Officer's Gultch and is located just past Dillion Lake in Colorado.

It was Father's Day and we decided to let Grandpa pick the fishing spot...he...

Pros: good for kids
Cons: not much meat

Growing up in Alaska during the summer is the best place to be when you are a kid. You do things like play "Midnight Baseball" (it doesnt get dark in summer) and go fishing.

My favorite fishing, was up at our island (yes we had...

Pros: Can grow very large! Good eating
Cons: live in cold envirements

Rainbow Trout is an excellent species of fish to pursue. They exist in all sorts of lakes and man-made reservoirs. Rainbow trout will bite more on fresh bait then old stagnant bait. There are many different types of bait used to catch trout,...

Pros: Sure-Fire backup for when the trout aren't biting on flies
Cons: Catching more trout than others makes them jealous =]

This is a great river technique if you are having trouble catching trout. I learned this technique from my grandfather on one of our many fishing trips up to the Beaverkill and Willowemoc Rivers in Roscoe, NY. This technique should work great for you fly...