“Rainbow trout love cold water and can be caught on a variety of baits and lures (worms, commercially available pastes, corn, spinners, spoons, flies and more), and are great to take home and eat.

“Rainbow trout love cold water and can be caught on a variety of baits and lures (worms, commercially available pastes, corn, spinners, spoons, flies and more), and are great to take home and eat.

The rainbow, as befits the colourful nature of its character, tends to favour flies of gaudy colours. Unlike its cousin the brown trout it does not favour the flies dressed of sombre colours.

Texas will stock bodies of water throughout the state with more than 342,000 rainbow trout for cold-weather fishing.