Dog Days of Summer

Hi folks, Guided a double yesterday chasing smallmouth bass in the morning and fly fishing for trout in the afternoon.  Big bright day with the sun poking out its nose very early in the morning.  Not the best of fishing weather with big sun and warm air temperatures.  Surface temperature on the lake we fished in the morning was 78 degrees.  Slight wind from the south east.  It was one of the those days where we should have been on the water as the sun came up.  Our best fishing was for the first hour of the morning.  We had 3 large smallmouth eat a popper within our first 4 casts.  We landed a beauty of a fish in the 3lb. class.  After that we worked for fish and managed to land 5 other smallies and a large pickerel.  Shade was the key and weed beds and wood around deeper shoreline edges.  Afternoon trout fishing was slow.  Fished a small tributary of the Lamoille where the water was 65 degrees.  Pretty warm for a brook trout stream.  Water was low and we certainly spooked some fish.  We had a dozen brook trout come to the dry fly and landed half dozen of the fish.  A #12 royal wulff was the fly of the day.  The fish were tight.  A lot of the takes were fairly subtle and even there were instances where the fish just refused the fly.  Lower water levels and warmer water temperatures had an impact.  Well it is the middle of the summer after all.  I am off to chase trout this morning and bass in the afternoon.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy