what a day

Hi Folks, Beautiful day to be on the water yesterday with pleasant air temperatures and a big sun with blue sky.  Maybe not ideal for fishing, but awful darn nice.  Visited a Lamoille tributary and walked a fished a beat of water I had not been on in 20 years.  It was nice to see that it has not changed much since that time.  Water temperature was 59 degrees, clarity was excellent, and the flow was perfect.  No hatching insects or rising fish.  Certainly a stream that should be approached by fishing up stream.  The rig of the day was a #14 green bodied stimulator as the dry fly with a #18 copper john for a dropper.  This particular stream has a decent population of wild rainbows, wild brown trout and stocked browns, with the occasional brook trout.  It was interesting to watch trout and particularly rainbows materialize from under rocks to follow my dropper fly in the drift and then either decide not to eat or pounce on the copper john.  The fish would just effortlessly float right next to fly examining it carefully.  You could see the aqua green bodies of the rainbows and even witnessed a brown trout with big cherry dots do the same thing.  I landed 5 wild rainbows between 8" and 12" and 1 8" brown trout on a 2wt.  Not bad for the middle of the day and a couple hours of fishing.  I did rig a indicator with the small coper john for a couple of the lat bigger pools and missed 3 pretty decent sized fish.  All of the takes were pretty subtle due to the bright sun and size of the fly.  I could see the fish move to the fly and just simple pulled the trigger to late.  Love seeing trout in their domain.  Off to chase pike this morning.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy