Home waters are the ones I love the best.
I travelled to Montague to fish the Sawmill River today.
(For some reason, my GPS sent me over Route 2 to get there, but then took me over Route 116 on the way back. Go figure).
I fished the Sawmill from 12:30 PM to about 2:15 PM.
It was mostly cloudy, and about 60 degrees.
I waded from the South Street bridge to the next one, and didn't see a single fish.
Doubling back, I fished a small back water not far from where I started, and reeled in two small (6" and 7") brookies.
Then I drove to the Book Mill and tried there, but nothing doing.
Heading home, I arrived in Adams around 3:30 PM, and fished the South Hoosic for about an hour, starting at the Old Stone Mill and heading downstream.
By then, the weather had cleared, and it was sunny and around 65 degrees.
Although I didn't have any action for most of the stretch that I waded, there were three trout clustered below a small roll dam below Elm Rock but above ALADCO.
I landed a 12" rainbow and lost a larger one beneath the right hand "corner" of the dam, and then caught a 14" one closer to the center.
I kept going all the way to ALADCO, but there was nothing doing, so I turned back and drove home for dinner.
