Hi Folks, Been pretty weird weather the last couple of days. Guided from motorboat and a canoe on Tuesday and Wednesday then waded the Lamoille yesterday afternoon. The air temperatures have swung almost 40 degrees in a 24 hour period. I went from getting beat down by the sun and heat to wearing waders and actually feeling chilly at dusk. Water temperatures soared over the last week during the record heat wave. The surface temperature of the lake I guided with the fly rods on Wednesday was 73 to 76 degrees. We need rain big time. We caught two decent smallmouth on poppers and missed one other fish in the morning before the sun was totally over head. Once the sun was up, the fishing shut down. Too sunny and too darn hot. Yesterday was fairly bright but things had cooled off and the Lamoille was a pleasant 63 degrees. Lots of bug activity yesterday afternoon from #16 green bodied caddis hatching and egg laying at dusk. There was a #18 sulphur that came off at dusk and a few spinners. Saw only a few sporadic #12 Isonychia. The trout were keyed in on the caddis and were jumping out of the water to take bugs that were taking flight to sucking pupa in the surface film. We only landed 2 stocked trout but several others to eat. We had several fish take a #18 green soft hackle that was trailing behind a #16 Goddard caddis dry. Sometimes when fishing a dropper it can be tricky to to detect strikes. You need to respond to the bulge in the water that is near the dry and assume the fish ate your dropper. We did nymph fish with limited results. We had one eat on a bobber rig a couple of takes on a swung #10 black wooly bugger. We caught feeding fish on a #16 foam bodied caddis in a big eddy off a giant pool. It was interesting to watch the fish feeding aggressively on the caddis as they swam around the eddy. We had to cast to wear they ate and then give the fly some movement with the tip to prompt a strike. We had two fish hammer the fly as it was being twitched along the surface. Very counter to the typical dead drift in the foam line you would often make when casting dry flies to rising fish. We then had a burst of surface activity of trout that resembled a feeding blitz on the ocean and we hooked our last fish of the night. Pretty challenging fish but lots of fun. Saw a lot rising fish. Off to do it again today. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have Fun, Willy
