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The tailwater looks quiet in November. No rises, no bugs in the air, and trout swaying in the weed beds anyway. They're eating crustaceans, and scuds and sowbugs are on the menu every day of the year. Here's how to tell them apart, where to find them, how to rig and fish them, and the eight patterns we'd carry.
Drive along nearly any freestone river after a hard rain, and you'll find it blown out — high, the color of chocolate milk, completely unfishable. Then you round a bend below a dam and the water turns gin-clear again, like someone flipped a switch. That's not luck. It's a tailwater, and it plays by a completely different set of rules than everything else on the map.
