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Bob Gwizdz: The secret to catching big trout? Just keep fishing

Frank Willetts shows off a hefty brown trout caught on the Pere Marquette River during a recent outing with the author. This big fish hit a tiny egg fly fished behind some spawning steelhead. (Photo by Bob Gwizdz)

I’ve been trying to come up with an approach to trout fishing the past few years that maximizes the opportunity to catch big fish.
I’ve considered about every variable that plays into the equation – where and when you fish, type of gear, weather patterns, etc., etc. – and just about every time I isolate a factor that I think might make a difference, something occurs that’s the opposite of what I anticipated.

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