Backcountry brookies
The best fishing is far afield, but the rewards are more than worth the effort
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Hit the rapids
You can often find trout in the shallows of rapids. However, if you’re not finding them there, cast rubber leeches on jig heads or weighted hooks to fish deeper water at the base of rapids where they pour into lakes. That’s how my brother Ted Baird (above) caught this beautiful brookie.