Trout Streams

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Wisconsin

> The Bois Brule River

Good trout, both browns and rainbows, sometimes reside in the calm pockets alongside roaring rapids like these where most of the canoe traffic shoots quickly past. Few fishermen stop to cover these areas.

An annoying, trout-scaring brood of mergansers shoots a rapids in reverse.

A remote, lake-like stretch of a trout river provides refuge for large, reclusive browns.

This beautiful habitat held some big risers that were too wary for me on one late July morning.

All along this fertile river, cedar sweepers like these shelter small brookies, browns, and rainbows.