Hi Folks, Been a productive few days of guiding with the fly rods on the Lamoille watershed. Leaves are now just past peak. Been pretty darn nice foliage season. Now with wind the leaves fall from the trees into the rivers and cause some issues with the your flies getting hung up in them. A few nights of frost have dropped river temperatures. The Lamoille and its tributaries dropped from 56 to 57 degrees to 49 to 51 degrees. Water warmed a bit yesterday as the air temperature was 72 degrees by late day. The water level is silly low. I have never seen this low of water levels in 26 years of walking Vermont trout streams. Not much for hatches the last few days. However, the nymph fishing has been terrific. We have been focusing on large heavy riffles and plunge pools. I am not locating any trout in secondary water. A #8 olive wooly bugger with a #20 BWO dropper nymph and a #12 prince nymph with a #18 BWO dropper nymph under an indicator have been the fly set ups. Catching pretty much all wild fish. The wild bows have looked very healthy. Got really nice 15" rainbow yesterday that ate the #20 nymph and then we had a larger trout chase it in out of the pool. Pretty exciting. My clients have been hooking at least half a dozen fish each half day outing right now. A lot of subtle takes. As long as the air temperatures maintain during the day the trout fishing will continue to be consistent. Looks like rain for Thursday, yea. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have Fun, Willy
