Friday, July 6, 2012
Small streaming it
Hi Folks, Guide the last 2 days on a Winooski tributary and today all day on a Lamoille tributary. Water levels and temperatures have been okay. Recent isolated thunderstorms seem to have helped levels and we had a few cool nights on to of it. The main stem of the Lamoille looked like chocolate milk this morning when we drove over it at 6:30am. Water temperatures have been 60 to 61 degrees in the early morning and reaching 64 degrees by midday. Still I have been fishing pocket water and on streams that have a good tree canopy. Makes a difference in the summer. All tight line fishing with very little slack and up steam approaches. Saw a few #8/#10 stone fly shucks on rocks the last few days and midday there was a hatch of a small #20 may fly. Maybe some type of olive, quill, or paraleps. would be my guess. We have been fishing #10 orange stimulators with droppers and a yellow foam rubber legged thing I tie. Small #18 copper johns in black and copper have worked well. Most of the brown trout we landed today ate the dropper nymph. We had 26 trout come to the fly today and landed 10 wild brown trout and native brookies. A few of the browns just looked stuffed like they had been eating well. Yesterday we caught all brook trout including a really nice 12" male brute. Pretty good trout fishing for July. Hot night so I am not so sure things will cool off much. Trout fishing in the am. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have fun, Willy