small flies and wild bows

Hi Folks, Guided on the Lamoille yesterday afternoon.  Big cool sunny day with air temperatures not eclipsing 50 degrees.  The water temperature was 48 degrees and my feet could feel it.  The water level was at a spring flow from the rain the previous day, but the clarity was  just fine.  One of the dilemmas this time of the year are floating leaves that the fly always catches.  We landed 5 rainbows with 4 of the fish being hard fighting silver bullet wild rainbows and one stocked trout that fought like a wet paper towel.  We missed 3 fish.  The method of the day was to swing a double nymph rig consisting of a #16 olive wire caddis with a #20 BWO nymph dropper.  Every fish eat the BWO nymph with the exception of the stocked trout who ate the caddis.  All of the takes came in riffles with the flies being swung to the end of the drift.  For the most part the takes were pretty subtle.  Interestingly, we did get a single take dead drifting an olive wooly bugger or swinging a white zonker.  Not much for hatching bugs yesterday as did see a few sporadic #16 cadddis about but no rising activity.  Water is cooling off so afternoon is the way now on a trout stream.  I am off to guide on the river of big fish. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy