Game & Fish West

AROUND THE WEST

You can either dread August or you can embrace it.The dog days of summer are thinning into the first cool nights of autumn, and you can almost hear the high wail of a distant bugle. Almost. There are still low-country fish biting in brackish reservoirs and the frothing tailwaters below their dams. In the higher country, the clear, sparkling waters of mountain streams are popping with hungry trout—many of

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