Mixing it up

  Hi Folks, Guided a full day yesterday with the boat in the morning and waded a small brook in the afternoon.  Water is still high everywhere and it needs to stop raining.  the main stems of the Lamoille and Winooski are stuffed for sometime to come.  The bass fishing and trout fishing was very good yesterday.  We caught all of our bass on top water flies and hooked most of our trout on dry flies.  Surface temperature was 71 degrees on the lake and 59 degrees in the brook.  We landed almost 30 smallmouth off the top.  We caught two bass with our first 3 casts.  The fly of the day was #4 chartreuse foam slider.  The msot productive spot was a gradually tapering shoreline with lots of wood and boulders.  The fish were close to shore and holding in 5' to 8' of water.  After having fun tugging on bass we moved to a small brook where the level was 5 times the average flow for this time of the year.  We hooked a trout in every pool we fished.  We cast a #10 royal rubber legged stimulator for a dry and #12 Black double tungsten stone fly for the nymph.  We had 7 fish eat the fly and landed two.  Line management is critical when river fishing and recovering slack or holding the line against the rod handle with your trigger finger is important when playing a fish.  Slack  line is a killer.  We hooked both browns and brookies.  Had one very nice brown trout eat a dry fly from under some wood and then made a great leap before a distinguished country club release.  Nice small stream experience especially for the middle of the day.  Off to trout fish right now.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy