END OF TROUT SEASON - 2008

THE LEAVES ARE FALLING AND I JUST COULDN'T PASS UP THE CHANCE TO TROUT FISH ONE LAST TIME AT BENNETT SPRINGS TROUT PARK AND WHAT A BEAUTIFUL FALL DAY IT WAS. THE END OF ANOTHER SEASON OF CATCHING RAINBOW TROUT HAS ARRIVED SO QUICKLY. BUT I WILL PROBABLY MANAGE A FEW TRIPS BACK, HOWEVER, FOR CATCH AND RELEASE THIS WINTER.

BIG IDAHO CUTTHROAT

Our thanks to Patrick McKarnin for sending in this beautiful snapshot of a nice Cutthroat he landed with his Franklin Trout Net on the Coeur d'Alene River in Idaho this Summer. He caught him and numerous others on a deer hair hopper. They were also tearing up yellow stimulators.

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2008 TROUT SEASON HAS BEGUN

Spring has sprung and we are eagerly tying on our flies and wading out in the streams for those fiesty trout.

Missouri had record numbers of fishermen in the trout parks on opening day March 1, 2008.

If the first day is any indication of the rest of the season, it should be a memorable one.