You can catch giant brown trout in the fall, but throwing big streamers isn't always the way to go. Photo by Joe Cermele The idea of the “fall feed bag” permeates fishing media. It’s so prevalent that ...

The pattern was unrecognizable. The markings seemed irrational. A quick search for the familiar scarlett spots haloed in blue ...

and when it comes to brown trout in particular, the “fall feed bag” is more hype than reality. In the flyfishing world especially, fall is regarded as “streamer season”—the time when ...