Every Level of Trout Fishing Difficulty Explained

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The same species that bites PowerBait off the bottom is also the hardest freshwater fish to catch in North America. That's the brown trout.

Stocked rainbows: fitness declines 40% per captive generation — the fish is easy because hatcheries selected against wariness
Wild brook trout: Great Smoky Mountains holds 2,000+ miles of wild brook trout streams — only because land was federally protected before the rest of its range was destroyed
Steelhead: it's not feeding. Every strike is a reaction. The river reading skills from lower levels don't transfer
Spring Creek, Pennsylvania: ~3,000 fish per mile. The brown trout there can identify drag on a size 18 fly before it completes its first foot of drift

Level 7 is the same species as Level 5. What changed is the fishing pressure that shaped its behavior.

00:00 Level 1 — Stocked Rainbow Trout
02:15 Level 2 — Wild Brook Trout
05:17 Level 3 — Wild Rainbow Trout
07:06 Level 4 — Cutthroat Trout
09:51 Level 5 — Wild Brown Trout
12:12 Level 6 — Steelhead
14:50 Level 7 — Wild Brown — Spring Creek

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