Trout use shallow areas to hunt and to feed, and when they are there, it’s the best chance we have to hunt them visually. (Douglas Hensel photo)
Too many people have the wrong impression that lake fishing is a deepwater game where you blindly plumb the depths, but the biggest trout I see every year come from the shallow edges and the stillwater flats of natural lakes and manmade reservoirs. Trout use these shallow areas to hunt and to feed, and when they are there, it’s the best chance we have to hunt them visually.
While much of my stillwater fishing is on the stillwater reservoirs of Colorado’s South Platte watershed, perhaps my favorite...