Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiasts Tom Rosenbauer. Happy New Year and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing

Guide podcast. We've had a number of requests from listeners about trout fishing in the winter.

We talked in a previous podcast about steelhead fishing, which is one of the things flyfishers like to do during the winter,

other than going south to the Bahamas or something to catch bonefish.

But this week let's talk about trout fishing for non-migratory trout, just your standard garden variety 6 to 16 inch or maybe 20

inch if you're lucky trout that that live in a stream and are not migrating

to a large lake or the ocean. To start off, you've

got to find the right place. Even though trout fishing is legal 12 months a year and lots of rivers across the country.

It's only really good in certain rivers.

The Battenkill just over the border in New York State.

It's closed in Vermont during the winter, but New York State has a special stretch that is open to

trout angling with artificial or fly 12 months a year and in the

32 years I've lived in this area I have yet to catch a trout in the baton kill in the wintertime.

Now I don't try it every year, I've kind of given up,

but there are just certain rivers where the fish don't feed actively

or they're difficult to find, or they hole up in places where you can't find

them. I'm not sure what but some rivers just aren't great for winter fly fishing.

The best ones are rivers that stay constant in temperature all year round.

And I think what happens is in a tailwater river below a bottom release dam or in a spring creek,

where the water is cold during the summer

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