Over the past few days, my neck of the woods has received the first half-way decent rains that we've had in quite some time, so I had high hopes that they would reboot the local fishing action and push it into overdrive.
But that does not appear to have happened.
Tonight, I got out after dinner on the upper end of my "milk run" along the South Hoosic in Adams, from 6:30 to 7:30 PM.
The weather was mostly sunny and 73 degrees, and the stream level seemed to be modestly higher than the last time I was out, albeit not as much as I expected.
The last time I got out not quite a week ago (at the height of our semi-drought conditions), I was fortunate enough to catch five rainbows along the same stretch in roughly the same period of time, but tonight I was only able to catch two.
On the other hand, I was able to make up in size for the decline in numbers.
The last several times that I've been out, the trout that I have caught have topped out at 15 inches, but tonight my larger one measured 16".