Grateful for summer and dreaming of fall

Grateful for summer and dreaming of fall

For an outdoorsman, August can be a bit of a challenge. The lake is usually lower than the rest of the year, and the temperature of the water is only tolerable for warmwater fishing—largemouth and smallmouth bass, pike, panfish and the exotic dinosaurs, gar and bowfin. I’m not a snob but I prefer the cold clear water in the mountain streams fishing for my favorite salmonid, Salvelinus fontinalis, the brook trout.