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| Ummm...we could use some water |
Friday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Good Fishing Right Now!
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| One more cast... |
We had a great group of 4H kids yesterday for a fly tying session. The kids ranged from 6-13 and they whipped up some great little trout bugs! It's great to let the kids pick their own color combos and see what their little creative minds come up with. If you have a group that would like to do a tying session, just drop us a line at gmtvermont@gmail.com
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| Clearing after a brief rainstorm |
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| A nice afternoon on a Lamoille tributary |
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Still Life With HDR
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| The colors of this wild Lamoille brown really pop with the added HDR effect |
It's amazing how far we've come in the world of digital photography. The possibilities are virtually endless as long as you have a decent smart phone and a handful of photo-editing apps. I've been discovering features on my phone that I never knew existed. The result is some pretty cool images.
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| HDR Smaille |
We've been on the water just about every day lately and the local trout fishing really has picked up. We've still not seen a ton of rainbows, but when our guests are catching beautiful wild browns like the one pictured above, it's easy to leave the river with a smile on our faces. Crystal buggers in 8-10 and PT nymphs in a size 14 have still been turning heads for us.
This cold front will get moving out of here after tonight, but the theme remains the lack of water we currently have in the systems. The Lamoille in Johnson is almost 400cfs below its mean flow for this time of year!
I made the trek north to the Clyde looking for landlocks yesterday and found the river absolutely loaded with suckers, huge schools of yellow perch, rock bass and the occasional freight train smallie. The water was low and, given the mass of suckers, I didn't bother nymphing at all. Instead, I stripped big streamers hoping for a LLS to give chase. I saw no sign of salmon, but did see a few foul-hooked suckers from the anglers that were nymphing.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Rain!
| Our junior guide givin' a lesson |
We got a nice soaking rain last night and everything looks so much greener and smells so much fresher this morning. The ground soaked up pretty much every bit of the rain, so river levels haven't budged much if at all. As I sat here yesterday writing reports of little rising fish activity, Mike was out with a first-time fly rodder and reported decent bug activity with plenty of fish slashing on the surface. Only Hendricksons were popping off, but an elk hair caddis was the meal they seemed most interested in. I think that after fighting a half dozen fish to the net, we have hooked yet another new angler on catching fish on the fly! Even the fallfish got some love yesterday and posed for a photo opp.
Many of our local bass are in full-on spawn mode and I'm aware that some primary spawning tribs have been getting hit very hard by anglers. We have so many fishing options right now that there is no need to repeatedly pound on spawning fish. Please just let these fish do their thing and make more fish which, after all, is really what we all want right?...more fish <"(((((><
| Not what you wanna see rolling down river when you're fishing! |
Friday, May 10, 2013
Upcoming Fishing Regs Hearings
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| For Troutfitters junior guide Calvin, fishing just runs in the family! |
Public hearing dates and locations...
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| The "Petting Zoo" fish of the Lamoille and Winooski have all been stocked |
-Wednesday, May 29 – Pavilion Auditorium in the Pavilion Building, 109 State Street, Montpelier(6:30 pm)
-Thursday, May 30 – Kehoe Education Center, Castleton, VT(6:30 pm)
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Love that Guitar Minnow!
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| Wild Lamoille Brown Trout |
Water levels are still dropping while temperatures continue to rise, but we do have a damp cool down coming in this weekend into early next week. That will likely put the warmwater bite in a bit of a flux while, at the same time, allow for our stocking trucks to get those hatchery fish in the rivers while they are still below 70 degrees! Our bass guide, Matt Applebaum has been putting up 100+ fish days on the lakes and we've got openings on the calendar, so get in on a bassin' tour on the fly or spinning rods!
We have seen some Hendricksons popping off in the Lamoille, but seemingly few fish are keyed into them since their emergence in this super dry weather happens very rapidly. Mike had some luck drifting PT nymphs under an indicator in the seams and was able to cash in on a few fish last night on the Lamoille.
We have seen some Hendricksons popping off in the Lamoille, but seemingly few fish are keyed into them since their emergence in this super dry weather happens very rapidly. Mike had some luck drifting PT nymphs under an indicator in the seams and was able to cash in on a few fish last night on the Lamoille.
The other day the bass were all over the "Guitar Minnow," which was created by Jim Bernstein of Eldridge Brothers Fly Shop in Maine. This fly was created for striped bass, but it works just fine on the freshwater bass too! Here's a video with tying instructions for this pattern.
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| My version of the "Guitar Minnow" |
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
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