Swinging the fly

Hi Folks, Guided the Winooski this morning with a fine fly angler. Water level was still up a bit, but the clarity was excellent.  Water temperature was 58 degrees at 6:30 am with morning clouds.  Nice low light for fishing.  Saw a decent number of #16 olive bodied caddis hatching and some random trout rising to eat.  The fishing was very good this morning with plenty of hungry fish.  We moved around a bit and did not have concrete feet.  We carried two rods with us.  One rigged with a double nymph rig with a #12 tungsten prince and #16 olive caddis pupa and dry fly rod with #16 olvie x-caddis with a #16 caddis pupa dropper.  We caught trout on every fly.  We discovered this morning that the trout were tuned into the fly on the swing.  Dead drifting did produce fish, but the fly swung at the end of the drift with action imparted really worked.  I can only attribute this to the fashion in which caddis hatch.  We also had good success catching wild rainbows on the x-caddis.  We had success on the dry fly to rising trout as well as being blind fished to good habitat.  Landed close to 20 trout and missed a bunch.  Primarily wild rainbows between 7" and 14".  They looked to be in excellent shape.  A lot of fun watching fish eat the fly.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy