The “Primary Feeding Station” is a term I use to identify that location in a trout stream that holds the largest trout in the area.
With experience one can learn to identify these very accurately. Just look at it from the trouts point of view: He wants to get the greatest amount of food possible while expending the least amount of energy.
Although I grew up fishing for brook trout in the Blue Ridge Mountains and brown trout in the Pennsylvania Spring Creeks I’ve found this understanding of primary feeding station extrapolates well to other waters. For example, the largest brown trout and the largest rainbow trout I’ve ever caught on the Madison River came from reading the river in this way.
Even beginning anglers in my “On The Stream Mountain Trout Schools” quickly master this approach. Many of the former students are now trout fishing all around the world with great success…because the learned the basics properly.
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