Thursday, June 6, 2013

Lots of bugs

Hi folks, Just returned from the Lamoille tonight after an evening of guiding with the fly rods.  Man, we saw 4 different types of mayflies and 2 different types of caddis hatching.  Even found a few rising wild fish.  Water level is perfect, too bad we are about to receive another 1" or so of rain over the next couple of days.  Water temperature was 60 degrees.  Just a really nice damp, overcast , cool, day for trout fishing.  So, we saw a #16 olive bodied caddis and a #20 tan body caddis coming off in small numbers.  Good numbers of  #14 large and #16 small sulphurs hatching at dusk with fish responding to them.  Also, a tiny #18/#20 olive was launcing off. The best were the #10 Brown Drakes that came off at dark.  Big darn bug!  We only had 6 fish come to the fly, but we got every one of them to eat a dry fly.  The best fish of the day was really fat 14" wild Lamoille River rainbow that really fought hard.  Several magnificent jumps.  We got all of our fish to either eat a #14 Catskill style cdc sulphur dun and a #10 parachute emerging drake pattern.  Kind of fun for a change to actually cast dry flies to rising wild trout on a Vermont big river.  Not an every day event.  Good night of trout fishing and it looks like the river temperatures should hold their own for a bit as there is not any hot weather in near future forecast.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy