cool down and fly fishing the cycle

Hi folks, Feels like autumn outside with air temperatures in the mid 40's and cooler than average weather forecast ed for the week.  I guided this last weekend and really mixed it up.  Fished for a wide variety of species with spin fishing on Saturday and fly fishing for trout on Sunday.  Water temperatures ranged from 65 degrees in the larger water to 61 degrees in the small stream I was on yesterday.  I took out a group of aspiring anglers on Saturday and we caught a little bit of everything that swims from bullhead to smallmouth and all the pan fish in between.  Young kids when learning to fish need action.  They do not care what they catch as long as they catch something. Keep it fun and simple.  Yesterday morning on a Lamoille tributary we landed brook trout, brown trout, and rainbow trout and all on dry flies.  We fished really heavy pocket water casting large #10 and #12 stimulators up stream.  In a few heavy plunge pools we dead drifted a heavily weighted olive/black wooly bugger under an indicator and had several nice takes.  We covered a lot of water yesterday.  Pretty darn good trout fishing for August and the all of the trout looked to be in excellent shape.  No hatching insects and I did not see any fish rising.  Still a few stone fly shucks on rocks.  If you have not figured out yet from my reports, where I live in Vermont we do not exactly have lots of hatches.  Off to chase smallmouth from the boat and it looks to be a bit windy.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have fun, Willy