Oh Sunny Day

Hi Folks, What a beautiful day to be out side and enjoy the water and do some fishing.  Guided a double today chasing smallmouth bass this morning with my boat and river fished trout this evening.  Surface temperature of the lake this morning was 64 degrees and the Lamoille main stem was 65 tonight at 7:00pm.  Nice sunny day with a pretty steady wind from the NW.  It was calm from about 5:00am until 8:00am and then again at dusk.  Bass fishing was interesting today as we saw lots of fish but only landed 3 okay sized bass.  We started popping early with a variety of surface stuff and had two good fish on and lost them.  As the sun came up we resorted to casting #2 Deceivers in Blue/White.  We were counting down the fly and working it back pretty darn quickly to draw a response.  If the fly was moved to slowly the bass would literally swirl multiple times around it and turn off.  It appeared that as we sped up the retrieve, the aggressive nature of the fish kicked in and we got more strikes versus denials.  We saw all of our fish in shallow and the water level was up several feet over the seasonal average.  I can only attribute the smallmouth's behavior this am to the new weather front and bright sun. This afternoon we waded the Lamoille and had the place to ourselves.  Pretty afternoon to be on a river.  Actually saw some rising fish.  There were some micro caddis coming and going as well as #16/#18 sulphurs towards dusk.  Too bad we were spin fishing.  Not really actually as we caught half a dozen wild rainbows and lost another half a dozen fish.  We had one really large brown trout chase the rebel crawfish lure to our feet.  A real submarine that we were unable to seal the deal on.  Larger trout in the Lamoille and Winooski resort to eating crawfish which are certainly abundant.  what do think a #10 or #12 olive/black/brown wooly bugger represents? Crawfish of course.  We hooked fish in riffles as well as large pools.  Working the plugs slowly as possible with the aid of the current drew a lot of interest.  Pretty interesting how many follows you get were the fish just don't take the plug.  Fun for me to watch.  Good fishing afternoon with nice looking trout.  Off to tug on some trout in the early am.  Happy Father's Day, Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  have fun, Willy