With the opening of trout fishing in rivers right around the corner, rivers open to trout fishing on Jan. 1, the fishing jones starts to vibrate. One way to soothe the itch is to look back on the 2023 fishing season and relive the highlights.
Unlike the previous two years, 2023 was the year of water. Gone were the low flows and the high temperatures that made those years almost unsafe to trout fish.
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