Autumn’s a time to consider the season for fishing and hooking a fish or two can be quite different from summer. Brown trout especially due to spawn May or June can get quite skittery, chasing each other around instead of feeding steadily as they did in February and March.  FRainbows spawn later in the year so you won’t have to adapt as much in autumn for rainbows. But browns can be different. So you need to adapt to the brown trout’s mood.

Browns are moving towards spawning  and will behave more aggressively and become territorial.. So use patterns that may be provoke the fish. Rubber legged fly patterns should be tried. Impart action to them. Same with nymphs, strip them in jerks.  Be innovative and lateral in your thinking and fly choice. Of course some brown trout will be in feeding mode as Nature wisely decrees that not all trout spawn at the same time. It’s Nature’s sway of spreading the risk of floods. 

Watch your shadow. With the sun lowering it will cast a longer shadow which if you don’t respect, can spook fish. Take care, crouch as you move in on a sighted fish. Fish longer leaders.

 Fish with smaller fly sizes and ones that will quickly sink to get to the trout’s level. Afternoons may be a better time than mornings and in autumn usually, winds are slight whereas in summer after midday they are often at their strongest. Autumn mornings can see lower temperatures to the “nippy” level. So nymph life underwater may not be active until after 10 am.