Hi Folks, Spent the day with a client on the Winooski yesterday chasing trout with the fly rods. The river trout fishing has been excellent over the last couple of weeks. Water temperatures are maintaining from the high fifties to the low sixties. Our rivers are getting a little low and we could use some rain. Cloudy start to the day yesterday that was followed by big bright sun. Lots of cased caddis on the rocks with green boded #16 caddis preparing to hatch. Saw a lot of #20/#22 BWO's coming off, but no rising fish. We did not have one trout eat a dry fly yesterday. We nymph fished the entire day with great success. Very different fishing from the previous day when we never tied on a nymph and only dry fly fished. We had well over 20 wild rainbows come to the fly yesterday and we landed a good portion of them. We fished a with a #16 olive caddis with a #18 bead headed pheasant tail nymph as the dropper. The rainbows mostly ate the pheasant tail. As the day became brighter and we focused on some heavier water we switched to a red threaded tungsten #14 prince nymph with the pheasant tail dropper. The good old prince produced the 17" wild rainbow that really put up a tussle. Incredibly strong fish. The trout we encountered yesterday did a lot of jumping. We had to be pretty thorough with our presentation in order to get the fish to eat. Due to the sun they did not seem overly willing to mover very far from their holding to station to eat. Really good day on the water. Today I will be guiding from the boat with the fly rods for pike and bass. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have Fun, Willy
