Its hot outside

Hi folks, Guided early yesterday am on the Lamoille.  Water temperature was 62 degrees at 6:30am.  A very bright hot sunny day with daytime air temperatures reaching 90.  Looks to stay that way until Thursday.  Not very good weather for trout fishing in May.  May can be a magical month with lots of hatches and large rising fish as well as prespawn smallmouth and shallow water pike.  This weather shuts that fishing window down a bit.  Go early or late though late day is usaully a short period of time to fish.  The rivers really warm up on a day like yesterday.  The good news is the weather will change by weeks end and it will be cool once again.  So, we fished with spin tackle yersterday and put a hurting on the stocked rainbows.  The lure of the day was a natural colored rebel crawfish.  We also used effectively a juvenille trout plug from rapala.  The fish of the day was a beautiful 15" wild male rainbow.  Only hooked with one hook and never removed from the water.  This trout drove home the point to my guests of the difference between a stocked and wild trout.  The wild fish fight a lot better and they look lie royalty unlike their stocked breathen who are beat beaten up and do not fight really well.  We still need rain and our rivers are getting low.  The bright sun compounds matters so I will using the boat to chase prespawn smallmouth today.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy