Monday, December 28, 2009

Christmas Fishing Report

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL…

Sorry for the late well wishes. Time has been a bit tight in CT, but fun none the less…

FISHING! Well things haven’t been outstanding, but it’s been a very insightful trip…from watching great hatches, to being very frustrated with not having the right patterns…

Thursday was by far the most amazing day on the water. The winter caddis started popping at about 9:30, and I watched probably 500 rises all day. I broke one off of a winter caddis pattern, though I was able to grab a nice healthy 15” brown on a caddis nymph.

Being as it was a holiday, and we have afternoon/evening plans, I was off the water a lot earlier then I wanted to be, though I’m sure that the afternoon brought on hatches of BWO’s and midges…

Christmas day was a wash fishing wise…

Saturday was another decent day on the water. With the father in law along for the ride, we spent a fair amount of time exploring, and looking for bugs. The hatches were not anywhere near the same as Thursday’s, but there were a few rises in the belly of pools. Mid way through the morning though, the rains began to pretty much end the fishing for the weekend. We spent some more time exploring, but finished the day without a fish.

Sunday was a complete loss. I ended up traveling to the river anyways, but arrived to find it brown and full of ice chunks. I did end up finding some high but, fishable water, and managed to hook one fish in a back eddy…but none landed for the day…

Monday Finn and I explored some more local water, but found less then ideal conditions. We did fish a bit, but it was not with any real expectations.

None the less, it was an amazing trip. Lots of entomology learned, and some amazing fishing spectacles seen…

Now we bring you the photography…

















Winter Caddis Hatch...Farmy Style...

















Riser...Winter Caddis...





















Christmas Eve Trout...
















mmm.....Caddis....
















Finn vs. my dry fly hackles...damn bird dog...

















Fucking Bird Dog...chewer...
















Reservoir Tower...
















Money Shot...
















Swinging Water...
















Back Eddy...





















River Road...

















Up River Sunday...
















Down River Sunday...




Monday...exploration...




Finn Fishing Trip...

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