Only three weeks until the opening of the brown trout season on my local river. The need for a close season is a question that I am sometimes asked. The short answer is to give the trout a reasonable chance to reproduce.
Wild brown trout travel upstream from lakes and deep water to well oxygenated gravel beds where, when conditions are correct they lay their eggs in nests in the river gravels, known as “redds”. The female will build the nest, usually between November and January when the water is cold and is well oxygenated, as this is exactly what the eggs need to hatch….
Leitrim Observer 17/02/2014 Read the article ‘Closed season about to come to an end as anglers gear up for‘
