Stubborn trout

Some tips to deal with stubborn trout:

• Go down 1 size on your leader/tippet
•  If you are fishing a 5x tippet with no success and you see the trout are ignoring one of your top producing flies, try a 6x tippet.
• Increase your leader length
• Trout is ignoring your:
•  Nymph
• Try putting on a double nymph rig with a big nymph pattern on top with a smaller nymph pattern as a dropper
• Successful combo: Use a red copper john with a green copper john dropper, or a double prince rig.
• Streamer
• If you see the trout ignoring your streamer, try and change the color of your streamer before changing the size of the pattern.
• If black, white or olive colors are not working.  I like to toss a bright colored streamer such as a golden/tan or even a yellow streamer. 
• Dry fly
• Most likely your presentation might be slightly off
• Try and use a lower weight fly rod
• Look for trout hitting the surface regularly
• Try and match the hatch
• If still having a problem, toss a big yellow humpy!

Casting to stubborn rainbow and brook trout in NH.