I got out on a couple streams in North Adams for a couple hours or so late this morning and early this afternoon.
Sunny, 38 degrees, about 2 to 4 inches of snow (slowly turning to slush) on the ground.
I started on the North Hoosic by the Natural Marble Bridge State Park.
Nothing doing there so I tried Hudson Brook (which runs through the Park) and was gratified to reel in five brookies (ranging from 6" to 9") and one 10" brown.
Then I headed downstream to fish the North Hoosic below the Eclipse Mill dam, where I caught a nice 13" brown.
My only regret was that I lost an 18" lunker of a rainbow beneath the dam when, after an epic struggle, it slipped the hook at the lip of the ledge I was standing on just as I was about to land it,.
My only consolation is that it will (hopefully) be there next weekend and I will have another crack at catching it.