[briansnat]

You can still catch plenty of trout under these conditions. What I think the other posters are trying to point out is that the warm streams are already hard on the trout and they are in survival mode and just hanging on.

Properly handled, trout easily survive a catch and release back in April, May and early June, but catching and releasing that same trout in warm waters is often enough to do them in. Though they are in season and definitely catchable, many anglers choose to lay of them in warm and/or low water conditions for that reason.

That is for streams. Deeper, cold water lakes such as Merrill Creek and Round Valley, fish away. Those trout find optimum temps and dissolved oxygen levels to hang out in and aren't as vulnerable to hot weather as stream fish.