Hi Folks, Guided the Lamoille yesterday afternoon and was greeted with a fantastic hatch of a #14 may fly. I assumed it was a #14/#16 Hendrickson, but upon closer investigation it appeared to be a #12/#14 Quill Gordon. I even looked in my entomology books when I got home to confirm. Not a hatch I have witnessed a lot in my guiding and fly fishing career in Vermont. All the same, the bugs came off in giant numbers. There was also a few #14 brown stone flies, and a #16 dark bodied caddis later in the afternoon. Only saw a handful of rises and they were not consistent. The water level was up a bit from the previous days, but still below the seasonal average. Water temperature was 58 degrees. We hooked 4 trout swinging nymphs and emergers. All of the fish ate the fly in the slower pools that were fed by large riffles. The fly of the day was a #14 flashback pheasant tail. We drifted and swung double fly rigs with a #12 double tungsten stone fly nymph and the pheasant tail as the dropper. Added a piece of weight a foot above the flies to keep them down in the strike zone. The Lamoille has now been stocked. Still I prefer to chase wild trout over stocked fish any day of the week. A cold front has moved in for the next few days. Could snow in higher elevations tonight. Will warm back up by mid week. I will be running my new drift over the next few days. Should be fun. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have Fun, Willy
