Here's a surefire way to catch brook trout on a warm summer day

A 2022 article argues that brook trout can be caught during warm summer afternoons—not only at dawn or dusk—by switching from floating dry flies to sinking fly-line tactics. The piece says dry-fly pond fishing often depends on insect hatches that push trout to the surface, which is less common in midday. To reach fish holding deeper in cooler, darker water, the author recommends high-density sinking fly lines and pairing them with a streamer or a nymph. The method calls for fly placement near the bottom in ponds typically 10 to 30 feet deep, using lines that sink roughly 3 to 6 inches per second.