Year of the Brown

[bogtrotter]

Looking back over this past year, brown trout (rather than rainbows) seem to be making up a larger portion of my overall catch as as compared to prior ones, even though I am still fishing the same rivers (mainly the North and South Hoosic) and even the same stretches of those rivers (North Adams and Adams) as in the past.

 Has anyone else noted a similar pattern this year (i.e., more browns, and fewer rainbows) on the streams they typically fish (e.g., Westfield, Deerfield, Green, Housatonic, Farmington, Millers, Swift or points further east)?

 And any theories over why that might be? - - eg., Change in stocking patterns? Differences in "holdover" rates during drought conditions? Something else?

 Just curious.

[lowaccord66]

Yes over the past 20 years of fishing rivers with stocked trout I'd say they tend to stock more browns now than ever before.  They tolerate warm water better than the rainbows.  Now this year for me there has been more rainbows and even a few more tiger trout in the Farmington.

[Fishermantim]

I thought you were talking about everyone's lawns....