green river 6/24

[yashuone]

haven't been on this forum much with all the fishing to do but since i was back that way this past weekend i figured i throw this report out there.

family biz called me back to western mass this weekend and just in case i got a few minutes away i packed up my gear as well. sunday afternoon i was finally able to scrape up some time to hit the river behind my parents house. i played in this river as a kid and fished the heck out of it with worms and spinning gear and all i ever got was suckers and chubs so i was not expecting much in the way of fish. my primary goal in this excursion was actually to test out my new water skeeters wading boots. they performed very well and do indeed hike comfortably on dry land as well. like i've explained i played in and around this stream for half of my life but this would be the first time exploring it with a fly rod in hand. the river has been significantly reshaped over the past 10 years or so, so it was all new to me. what i discovered was a complete surprise... no trophy trout or monster bass (in fat no bass at all) but every fishy looking hole that i dropped my fly into yielded a barage of hits from fiesty little rainbows. i only hiked about a half mile stretch of this river but it was quite an exciting stretch for someone who hasn't hooked into any trout for some time. the water was extremely clear unlike what i'm used to in maine so i spooked many more trout than i tricked. this was also the first field test of the new olympus 770sw.

a great day!!!

the path from my folks house to the river


anyone know what kind of spider this is? it was ove 6" across... no joke!


my first surprise!


water clarity... (and a fish out of frame, the underwater shots can be tricky)


nice bow on my prince dropper...


a quick pic before release, this one was the biggest of the day


all fish were caught on the beaver meadow with a prince nymph dropped of a black wooly bugger. go figure that the small fish hit the bugger and the bigger ones prefered the prince...

[flyfishgb]

Juvenile Berkshire Wolf Spider?

I know they get big....

[yashuone]

when i put this post on the other site someone hit it right on the head, at least as far as i can surmise... dark fishing spider, "Dolomedes tenebrosus"

[Mark Patenaude]

Yup. Fishing Spider.

I wasn't going to say anything...

Mark

[flyfishgb]

does it fish? cause if it does its probably alot better then i am!

[jlibs]

I've been out on several sections of the Green down here in South County lately early am or after dinner. The water still runs very clear and is very shallow with fish holding in all of the likely very difficult places to catch them. The fish are often right in the roots of uprooted blow-down trees at the mid or bottom of holes in every bend of the river. Most of the stockies are gone with an occassional rainbow surprise at the end of your line at the pull offs/bridges. More fish are quite a ways away from the "easier" access areas. Most fish are 6" from brookies and 8-12for browns and bows that are hold-overs with some being much larger on occassion. I did see a Green River record size trout this past week holding in an unlikely spot with little cover at 7:00am in the shade. One false cast (and I may not have even been within casting range) and the trout bolted. I also saw fish bolt in the distance when just walking softly on the gravel banks heading upstream. The fish are there and the water is cool in the shade and in the bends.