Should You Fish in August?
Well, it's generally accepted trout-fishing wisdom that -- assuming you are practicing catch-and-release fishing -- August is a bad month to fish for trout. But it has more to do with water temperature than any one specific month. For one thing, a trout's metabolic activity slows down as water temperatures increase, causing them to feed less and attempt to conserve energy by staying cool in the deeper parts of the streams. So you flat-out won't get as much action. Second, and maybe most importantly, in warmer water temperatures, you risk killing a fish just by the simple act of catching it. Trout thrive in oxygen-rich water and that means cold, fast-moving water. When the water is neither cold nor fast-moving, it doesn't have a lot of oxygen in it, and therefore trout have more difficulty breathing. Therefore, when you place a great amount of stress on fish in warm -- i.e. making it fight for it's life on the end of your fishing line -- the fish may get so depleted...
