Long Rod Chronicles

[lowaccord66]

The rainbows were fired up this afternoon.  Landed 1 large one (stocked) probably 5 or 6 pounds.  Went to snap a pic and it took off.  Caught a dozen or so smaller rainbows.

[stripernut]

Very nice fish!
 Did you hit the Q? Will could not make it, so I hope to get out sometime this week with someone. I have the week off, so if not there, someplace else...

[bogtrotter]

. . .  Landed 1 large one (stocked rainbow) probably 5 or 6 pounds.   . . .

Holy crap, that's a big fish!!

[lowaccord66]

Big stocker for sure. 

[The Jigger]

nice fish Jon

[lowaccord66]

Housy 800 cfs before the rain....topped out at 3000 cfs. 

Farmington (lower tma) was 387 and hit 4400! 

Be a few days before its good to get back out on either.  Good news is the recent housy transplants should be spread out well.

[westernmas]

Yeah we got like 4+” of rain. Stream next to my house is usually 3-4’ wide n a foot deep.  Typically like 8’ of clearance under the bridge.

[lowaccord66]

Wild.  Just as soon as there was enough daylight to put in a solid after work mission.

[lowaccord66]

Headed in the wrong direction.....flow bump to lower the level on Colebrook river res.  900 is not easily fished on the upper stretch. 

[lowaccord66]

Spent some time yesterday on a smaller stream in western ct managed for wild trout (I say that loosely).  Class 3 water so defined as having a few wild trout with stocking added.  Well, results seemed to prove that to be relatively honest.  3 bows and 1 wild brown.  Not a bad effort for a couple miles of pools in am evening.  Black stonefly was the ticket with one fish on a rainbow warrior. 

[lowaccord66]

End of month was an easy one so I checked out early and fished more new water.  I ended up dissappointed.  Section of river I picked is in a spot called Hidden Valley.  Well, turns out its not hidden and has a well traveled walking path going most of the length of it.  So not only did I get the skunk, I was way over my people threshold.  Now Im expecting every river that remained fishable today to be blown out by tomorrow night. 

[lowaccord66]

Unsure if I want to play in high water with a full sink tip or sit on the couch and learn.

Found this gem a minute ago:

[stripernut]

I did not realize there were Native Brook Trout on the Vineyard...

[lowaccord66]

I did not realize there were Native Brook Trout on the Vineyard...

I did some light reading on the subject and there are a few.

I read survey information on CT and in almost every sample site the numbers dropped significantly.  Except for 1 where the numbers went from a few hundred sampled to 1400.  I will be visiting that area soon!

[lowaccord66]

There wasnt a pot of gold, but there was more than a few willing stockies last night. For a skinny stream they were very close to the banks.