Hi Folks, Took a couple of days off to go camping with my kids. Loads of fun and needed break from guiding after a record August. Back on the water the last couple of days guiding and chasing trout with the fly rods. A lot of bug activity lately with rising fish. We have witnessed subtle rises to #22 Trico spinner pattern to explosive takes to a large parachute dry fly. #22-#24 Tricos are still coming off in the morning and the spinner falls are prompting the trout to eat off the top. With the cooler day time air temperatures and cooling water temperatures the hatch has been happening a little later in the morning. Lot and lots of #12 Isonychia shucks on rocks and we saw a good number of the large may flies coming off yesterday afternoon on the Lamoille. Grass hoppers are everywhere currently. Always a fun dry fly to fish and of course the good old hopper dropper combo can be very effective. Water levels are now down. Who would have guess after the wet summer we have experienced. Fortunately the sun is getting lower in the sky and with the cooler air temperatures the trout should not have any thermal stress in the low water conditions. Nothing better than seeing rising fish. There was a fair number of fish rising last night we got them to eat a #12 Adams parachute. I did have a combo spin/fly trip last night. The spin anglers cast trout imitation plugs. In big eddies and deep primary pools we caught 4 wild rainbows and 1 wild brown and fought a brown trout that was well over 20". Massive fish that we saw several times. It fought like crazy. It eventually tossed the hook and won the battle. There were large wild fish rising as well and we did not see any stocked trout. Looks like a cold front moving in this weekend with some needed rain. Trout fishing should only get better and better from here on out. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have Fun, Willy
