Post by Mark Patenaude on Jul 23, 2007 8:18:26 GMT -5
Got on the water around 7:00 am. Fished nymphs for a couple of hours because I didn't see anything rising despite a really nice BWO hatch when I got there that lasted for a few hours. I was a bit concerned when I saw first the amount of vegetation in the water for this time of year and secondly the gin clear water. Also a bit unusual.
About 10 am things started to get going and fish began rising at random. Threw an EHC and a Klinkhammer as searching patterns, no takers. Hmmm.
Looked in the air and at the water and still didn't see anything but a few micro-midges and other insect body parts floating by. Tied on a #20 Adams (tied Catskill style so no wing post for an indicator) which did the trick. All in all around 18 fish. I was almost blind from tracking that fly at 30-40 feet almost all day.
Got into a pool where I could see around 15 trout sitting at a transition between sand and the vegetation in around 3' of water. There were a couple of pig Browns mixed in with them. Switched to a #14 tan scud and after a few drifts I hooked what would have turned out to be my personal best Brown on this creek. He came up really quick and headed straight toward me. I couldn't strip in fast enough and he was gone.
My estimate is 24" and 5+ lbs. 
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As a side note I fished one really nice pool and had to share it with a couple of otters. It gave me flash backs from a couple of years back when on the Hoosic I had to whack a couple of muskrats with my fly rod after they chased me through the water to a mid-stream boulder behind the old mill at the bottom of Cheshire Harbor Hill.
How about a report on the Deerfield outing...
Mark
About 10 am things started to get going and fish began rising at random. Threw an EHC and a Klinkhammer as searching patterns, no takers. Hmmm.
Looked in the air and at the water and still didn't see anything but a few micro-midges and other insect body parts floating by. Tied on a #20 Adams (tied Catskill style so no wing post for an indicator) which did the trick. All in all around 18 fish. I was almost blind from tracking that fly at 30-40 feet almost all day.
Got into a pool where I could see around 15 trout sitting at a transition between sand and the vegetation in around 3' of water. There were a couple of pig Browns mixed in with them. Switched to a #14 tan scud and after a few drifts I hooked what would have turned out to be my personal best Brown on this creek. He came up really quick and headed straight toward me. I couldn't strip in fast enough and he was gone.
My estimate is 24" and 5+ lbs. 
. As a side note I fished one really nice pool and had to share it with a couple of otters. It gave me flash backs from a couple of years back when on the Hoosic I had to whack a couple of muskrats with my fly rod after they chased me through the water to a mid-stream boulder behind the old mill at the bottom of Cheshire Harbor Hill.
How about a report on the Deerfield outing...
Mark
