I got out fishing on the North Hoosic in North Adams for about 45 minutes after work but before dinner this evening.
It was mostly cloudy and about 65 degrees out.
After starting just below the entrance to the Natural Marble Bridge State Park, and not getting any action, I headed downstream to the sandbar island below the roll dam, and waded from the southern end of the island, past Elm Rock, and then (after clambering onto shore on the opposite bank) down below the Eclipse Mill dam.
While I didn't get any strikes above the Eclipse Mill dam, I caught a 14" rainbow (after a sharp but brief struggle) just below it, and then hooked into another fish about 100 yards further downstream.
This second fish put up one helluva fight, and after finally landing it, I was surprised to learn that it was "only" 15" rainbow.
I'm pretty sure this was the same fish (since I caught it in the same spot) as the one that had the sheer effrontery to let go of my hook after I was thoughtful enough to place a tender morsel of nightcrawler before it this past weekend.
Needless to say, it was gratifying to wreak my vengeance on such an ungrateful miscreant.
Duly vindicated, I climbed out of the water, and walked back to my car before heading home for a well deserved rest after my prodigious labors.
