smallmouth bite

Hi folks, Been a pretty interesting few days of fishing and guiding.  Lots of rain prior to the weekend followed by a cold front made fishing interesting.  Big northeast wind did not help matters.  Tough for lake fishing.  Cold fronts always make fish a little neutral to non-aggressive in feeding.  The main stems of the Lamoille and Winooski are still high but dropping.  They shot up pretty good after all of the rain and became off colored.  Fishing in their tributaries was my focus.  Love the small water when it is up.  Tend to see the bigger fish in those conditions.  River temperatures dropped with the cooling air temperatures and my thermometer was reading low sixties.  It will be a hot week so carrying a thermometer is a great idea for fishing the big water.  Time of the year to fish early morning and some evenings for trout.  All contingent on water temperatures. If you have to trout fish in 70 degrees water then either kill the fish and just be unethical.  The bass fishing this morning was excellent.  Calm conditions at 5:30am with a surface temperature of 67 degrees. The top water bite was excellent until the fog burned off.  Got smallmouth to eat floating rapalas in perch and blue and silver.  When got down and dirty with Senkos in natural 4" crawfish we really began to hook fish.  Pretty darn productive.We located most of our bass in 12' to 15' on hard bottoms off the first real drop off from shore.  Will be chasing trout and smallmouth all week.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy