Sight fishing and the heat

Hi folks, Guided with the fly rods for smallmouth bass this morning.  Pretty darn hot and humid out there.  The water temperature at 5:45am this morning was 69 degrees and the warmed to 72 degrees in the sun by 11:00am.  Good time to leave the trout alone in the big water of the Lamoille and Winooski.  Find cooler water on the tributary streams and do not fish where they dump into the big rivers.  I have heard and seen of folks tugging on trout that are stacked up in the cool water areas of where tributaries dump into the main stem of the Lamoille.  Shame on them and especially if you are a catch and release fly angler.  Those fish are thermally stressed and hooking and playing them is probably going to result in their mortality.  If you are with a guide that puts you on these fish then I suggest that you call them out fish with someone else.  It is literally like shooting fish in a barrel!  Show the fish some respect.  So back to the fishing this morning.  Pretty good top water bite.  We fished clear water and worked frog poppers and large #10 Stimulators along the bank in slow sections of the river that had downed wood and large rocks.  We were able to sight a few fish by walking on high banks and then positioning ourselves to cast at them.  We had 6 smallmouth eat off the top and we landed 3 of the bass.   The best fish of the day we caught below the surface.  We spotted the big boy swinging behind a large rock and we got it to eat a nymph.  A #12 prince nymph under an indicator was the ticket and the fly was right in the top of the smallies chompers.  Hell of a fish that really jumped and pulled back.  In addition, we caught by accident or pure dumb luck two trout, 1 rainbow and 1 brown and missed a couple of others.  We were not targeting them.  Pretty interesting that the trout were mixed in with the smallmouth.  Found a lot of #8/#10 stone fly shucks on rocks and I am starting to see #10/#12 green/olive grasshoppers in fields.  Never rule out terrestrials in small wooded streams.  Looks like hot steamy weather for the next few days with potential thunderstorms.  Fishing early am is still the best bet.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy