Long Rod Chronicles

[zwiggles]

When you think you have a pb brown....and instead it's a giant sucker....

Haha, definitely disappointing when you think it’s a brown, but man do those suckers fight hard!

[ICEHOLE]

Haha, definitely disappointing when you think it’s a brown, but man do those suckers fight hard!

Hope you kept it for belly strip trailer and chum   

[lowaccord66]

I let him go.  I think the area I was in will be good for trapping bait when it warms up.





Had a few hours this morning.  Landed one bow that was about 4lbs...one fin rotten.  The tiger was really good looking!

[zwiggles]

Nice tiger! Do you run into those often? And what do you mean by rotten fin? Like a stocker fin that wore off in the tank?

[lowaccord66]

Not too often.  Yes one of its fins was like melted off.  Pretty gross.  For a heavy trout it fought like crap too!

[lowaccord66]

Got out 12-330.  Lost count.  Mostly bows, and strangely more brookies than browns.  Flow was a bit high still which I enjoyed. 

One fish came unstuck and got me.  Thankful for barbless...

[lowaccord66]

Caddis hatch has begun. Had some spinner falls as well last night.  Flow 1000 cfs or so fishing the lower end of the farmington.  All browns last night which was odd!

[lowaccord66]

Another evening of caddis.  Caught a couple handfuls.  One brown was really nice.  Wild roughly 20".  Hit the tag fly.  Wanted a pic badly but the line for my point fly wrapped around his head several times taking all the seconds I had for a pic.

Pat we gotta go soon!

[lowaccord66]

The 5am to 9 session was better than the 2-6 session.  Good day.  Caught a lot of bows like this one.

[lowaccord66]

Fished 6 to 9 on the housy last night and caught mostly wild browns. Nothing huge but it didn't matter because of how they fight.  Always reminds me of big stripers because they weave around stuff and actively try to break your leader.  I've hooked a couple admirable browns in the housy I had no chance of landing...maybe one day...

Tonight was another great caddis night but on the Farmington.  Fished 5 to 8.  Lots of brookies in the second spot I fished.  The trout are moving into my favorite water.  Fast shallow white water.  When the right flies land they get smashed instantaneously. 

[zwiggles]

Sounds like some great action!

[lowaccord66]

Another decent night on the housy.  Highlight was a wild brown of about 18".  That and I fell...hard....getting down to the water down a rock wall.  Hit my knee pretty hard.  Was happy I didn't rip my waders...

[westernmas]

Finally had a few hours to fish after work yesterday. Hit one of my favorite sections of the west branch of the Westfield. Water was much more fish able than last time I visited and I was able to bring a nice brown and a rainbow to hand. Lost a much bigger brown at the net and had a few other takes. Was also visited by a very curious beaver who was in the process of damming up one of the better pools on the river. Feel like there needs to be an open season on them with all of the new lodges and dams I’m seeing.

Adipose would make you think it’s wild or a holdover but I’m leaning toward stocked.

[lowaccord66]

I need a net just for better pics.  Great work Pat.  On the farmy tonight if you are around.

[westernmas]

Got out to the west branch again once the sun popped out of the clouds yesterday evening. There was an insane caddis hatch but nothing seemed to be coming up to the surface. I got my biggest rainbow I’ve caught in a while and one other smaller one with a couple of misses mixed in. Fished 3 different sections of river and saw a GD beaver in every spot.