How to Catch Trout in High Water and Blown-Out Rivers

How to Catch Trout in High Water and Blown-Out Rivers

Just a few weeks ago, I made a six-hour drive to Western Pennsylvania to target brown trout on a very famous tailwater. The day before I departed, of course, a massive line of storms swept through dumping buckets of rain across the entire state. Almost every river I drove over and along was cresting its banks and chocolate brown. The good news was that because we were fishing a tailwater with flows controlled by a dam, our river wouldn’t be choc…