3 Tips to Help You Catch More Rainbow Trout This Summer

The summer can be a difficult time to catch rainbow trout due to a myriad of reasons, but if you change your approach a little bit, they can be caught consistently. In this post I will outline 3 tips to help you catch more summer rainbow trout. The first tips involves fishing at night, which is something that trout fishermen often don't even consider. As we all know rainbow trout are a cold blooded fish that prefers cold water, and during the summer what time of the day is the best for cool temperatures and thus cooler water? That's right, the nighttime.

We have found that the best bait to use at night when fishing for rainbow trout is a live worm. A live worm rigged on a set of gang hooks or even better a jig w/ a trailer hook is the way to rig your worm and the fishing goes a little something like this.

While fishing for rainbows is effective in rivers the logistics can be a challenge, so we prefer to fish in a lake from a boat. Begin by placing either a floating fishing light or a submersible fishing light into the water 15-30 minutes before you are ready to fish. Doing this will attract microorganisms to the light, which in turn attract bait fish, followed by hungry rainbow trout. After waiting 15-30 minutes, start casting out and slowly reeling your live fishing worm along the bottom. Before long you should be hooking your fair share of night time rainbow trout. If you don't receive any bites for 45 minutes to an hour, relocate and repeat until you locate a school or rainbows.

The next tip is to try to be on the water, whether it is day or night, when the moon is in a new moon phase. Trout tend to be much more active and thus more likely to be feeding during the new moon phase than they are during any other phase of the moon. Try to plan your summer trout fishing excursions during the phase of the moon known as "new" and you will receive more bites from hungry rainbow trout whether you are fishing during the day or under the cover of darkness.

Finally, when you do fish for trout during the daytime hours, make sure that you are fishing during the coolest parts of the day. This means the mornings or the evenings, with the mornings being more effective than the evenings. Follow these 3 simple tips and start catching more rainbow trout this summer.