I fished from about 10 AM to 1 PM today.
Mostly cloudy (although it got sunnier as the day progressed), with temps that started out in the mid 60's but crept up to about 70 by the time i finished.
I started by driving to the North Hoosic in North Adams (by the Natural Marble Bridge State Park), but one look told me there was no point.
The stream bed of the North Branch is pretty steep, and it doesn't take much water to make it flow fast and turbid.
So I spent about an hour trying to fish Hudson Brook (which runs down through the Park and into the North Branch). While a bit lower, the water levels were still pretty high, and I couldn't find any fish, even in the backwaters and relatively slow-moving spots.
Next, I drove to a private pond where I went from an excess of water to its opposite.
For the first time I can ever recall, the pond was drained (with the stream that feeds it diverted into a side channel) - - although I did learn it's much deeper (about 6' or 7' deep) than it looks when it's full.
Finally, I headed to the South Hoosic in Adams, which is not as steep as the North Branch and so less sensitive to changes in stream level.
After waiting to hear the end of "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" on my car radio, I started fishing near the Old Stone Mill around 12 noon, and fished downstream a little ways past Elm Rock.
I caught a total of 7 rainbows (in the 12" to 16" range) and 2 browns (one 9" and one 10") in a little over an hour. - - two of them (the 9" brown and a 13" rainbow) below the small waterfall downstream from Elm Rock and the rest at Elm Rock itself.
