We have been blessed so far this October, here in Vermont. With peak autumn foliage, it’s always a treat living here. You know it’s going to happen, its just a matter of other weather variables as to how long it lasts. This year, we had cool temps and some rain early in the month to kick off the season, and give the fall spawners a good feeling to get moving. Now we have had an eight day stretch of blue bird days, with no rain, very little wind and day time air temps in the 70’s so trees have maintained there beauty for several days longer.
The lack of rain has not been good, but fishing has been. LL salmon fishing has slowed from some terrific days after the last rain. Just need another rain to get them energized. Rivers up and down the state are running below average, which will start to concentrate trout in deeper pools.
Typically, trout will start to migrate to deeper pools this time of year anyway, as they start to feel winter setting in.
October 31st marks the end of the regular trout season. It really just means you can’t keep any trout that you catch, and you have to use artificial lures. So you can continue to fish trout on a number of different streams that remain open to fishing year round.
