The trout angler's guide to fishing through drought (opens in new tab)

On Colorado’s Front Range, essentially a high desert, longtime trout anglers tend to be more tuned into the realities of drought, low water, and rising temperatures — all things that are fundamentally bad for trout fishing and, more importantly, the fish themselves. Many anglers around the country may have never experienced a “real” drought firsthand or simply haven’t been fishing long enough to understand what prolonged heat and shrinking flows actually mean for a species that craves as much...