Bowriverblog (CA)

 I love to fish for massive Brown Trout and this species of fish is what I usually target. They are the hardest species of trout to catch for various different reasons. One is they have the best eye sight of all species of trout. The second reason is they are very wary, and in my opinion the smartest of all the trout species.


In this post I will give the reader some information on fishing for these beautiful creatures at night. When the sun goes down and most people are getting ready for bed, it’s a perfect time for me to go do a little casting. A river seems somehow different at night. The rush of the water seems louder; the splashing of an active fish is loud enough to make you jumpy and the smell of your surroundings all add to this clumsy type of fishing.

The main reason I fish for Brown Trout at night is these fish are nocturnal and feed when the sun goes down all the way into the night. Once your nerves settle and the edginess subsides you can concentrate on the task at hand, large Brown Trout by the moon light. Studies have shown in the past fifteen years what anglers have long suspected, that trophy-class Brown Trout are heavily and predominantly, nocturnal. Biologists have discovered that radio tracked Browns, all 20 inches or longer, spent most of their daylight hours in cover. Logjams undercut banks and behind large rocks is where they found large Browns hiding during the day. Only after sunset did these fish come alive and turn into hungry roaming predators. Hungry Brown Trout will cruse for miles up or down a river in search of active prey such as Grasshoppers, Crawfish, Nymphs, Baitfish Minnows like Rainbow Fry, Brown Trout Fry, small Suckers or any other baitfish it can wrap its lips around. It is no surprise that night fisherman are in a great position to intercept these massive night prowlers in the summer months.