Warm Water Trout?

With a heat wave hanging over Chicagoland, I retired to my airconditioned family room to tie some flies. I found myself tying flies for the Fall Catchable Trout season in Illinois. Come mid-October I will be fishing for trout in the same ponds where I pursue Largemouth Bass during the summer. Though it is a strange situation, I can't pass up a scheduled run of fish.

Does that make these Warm Water Trout? :wink:

No those are cold water bass :lol:

There is a temperature range that can support both bass and trout. When it is too hot the trout fish the inlets/springs or deep water that provide the coolest habitat and lay low until it cools off. When its too cold the bass to a similar laying about but they wait for the warmth.

jed

If you know where the spring infeeds are in a smallmouth creek, you can catch almost every smallmouth in the stream during winter. They will all be in the spring outflows. Same in hottest summertime.

Warm-Water Trout=Small-mouth Bass.
Warm-Water Trout divided by 1/4 =Bluegill

Semper Fi!