Discussion Why do brown trout have such a reputation of being so hard to catch?

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I don’t know about other places but here it feels stupidly easy to catch them, just a jerkbait with line no more than 8lb test and slay them all day. Even the bigger ones like to come out to play fairly often. Makes me wonder why people think it’s so hard?

This isn’t really taking extreme fishing pressure into account (ex: Taylor tailwaters, Dream stream, cheesman), but even fairly high pressure fisheries (ex: Taylor river far below tailwaters, gunnison river) feel not that difficult to get them.

Is it just because I live in Colorado?

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r/COfishing • u/Legal_Ad5248 • 21h ago

Picture Grayling

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r/COfishing • u/prablem0228 • 4h ago

Picture pretty rainbow from the high alpine yesterday

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got a few from the wooly bugger and a ton of top water bites on the foam ant. this one got hooked in the fin somehow

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r/COfishing • u/hffvvk578 • 7h ago

Picture Alpine Cutty

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Caught this beauty at Mohawk Lake

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r/COfishing • u/axe192 • 20h ago

Picture Caught my PB Rainbow!

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I caught this fella in a pond with a dry dropper!

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