How El Niño Might Affect Trout Fishing in the Mid-Atlantic

It’s December and dry flies are still catching trout; I even saw a few hoppers out the other day. This fall has been very out of the ordinary. In fact, according to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the month of October was the world’s warmest ever recorded for that month, and it was the warmest October in America since 1963. I’m not sure how other states have fared this past month, but it has been a strangely warm November as well. This fall/winter is drastically different from the one we had last year, and there’s a good explanation for it. No, this article is not about global warming or conspiracy theories, it’s meant to describe another weather phenomenon that might have a significant affect on fly fishing this winter… El Niño.