spring fishing bonanza

Hi folks, Been guiding night and day the last two days.  Big bright sun with warmer than average airs temperatures.  Did cloud up this afternoon and allowed for some good dry fly fishing.  The trout fishing right now is pretty darn good as I have been on the Lamoille, Winooski, and a Winooski tributary in the last two days and we are catching fish everywhere.  Water temperatures are heating up and levels are low for this time of the year.  The water levels are kind of scary low for this time of the year it doe snot bode well for the summer without some rain.  Yesterday we found water temperatures on the Lamoille early in the low to mid sixties and in the afternoon on a small Winooski tributary holding steady at 60 degrees. All nymph fishing on the Lamoille yesterday as we found a pod of stocked rainbows and tugged on them pretty well.  A #12 flashback pheasant tail was the fly.  The fish were holding in heavier water because of the warming water temperatures.  The small trib. we fished was dynamite!  We actually sight fished a few wild rainbows and native brook trout.  I have to say I would take a wild 10" rainbow over a 12" stocked fish any day of the week.  The wild rainbows we have been catching lately have been just electric.  We caught one of the nicest small stream brook trout you will ever catch.  A legitimate 11" specimen that had a large hook jaw and was just beautifully colored.  A #12 Ausable wulff was the fly of the afternoon.  Saw a decent hatch of #14 Grey Fox yesterday and few #16 olive bodied caddis.  The main stem of the Winooski today was awesome.  Not much for hatching bugs, but it did not matter.  If you ever wanted to catch a trout on a fly today was the day.  We landed 18 fish with a combination of wild rainbows, wild browns, and stocked rainbows and browns.  Probably missed or lost another dozen fish.  The rig of the day was a double nymph rig with a #12 flashback pheasant tail with a #16 olive caddis pupa dropper.  It was pretty equal with the which fly was bit the most by the trout.  We ended the day with a #12 Ausable Wulff.  The common denominator of the day was that the trout were fixed to heavy water with big boulders and rocks.  Trout need a high amount of dissolved oxygen and the fast and tumbling water is the place when temperatures are heating up.  A strike indicator is really useful on heavy water and line management is critical.  Well, 2 great days of fishing and more to come.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have fun, Willy