Every week he called me, and each time it was the same thing: He’d caught a limit of big holdover rainbows and had more big fish break him off or throw the hook midway into a spectacular jump. His pictures held the proof: big trout, some stretching the tape beyond 24 inches.
My dad and his friends were enjoying some of the best trout fishing of the year last February—a month when most anglers are either struggling to match tiny mayflies or midges on rivers or are tying flies in front of a roaring fire.
A lot of Western trout lakes and reservoirs do not ice over, and all that water is just begging to be fished. Some of it holds huge trout that are hungry and itching to
