Pennsylvania’s opening day of trout season brings with it lots of anglers who are full of anticipation. They set up at known hotspots, which are usually the places that the fish were dumped into the streams, with hopes of catching their share in short order.
After a few days of this kind of pressure, the fish react and become hard to catch. Anglers trying to use first-day tactics usually end up with few or any fish in their creels and mistakenly believe the stream is fished out – which is hardly ever the case.
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