Mini trip reports

Ordinarily, I wouldn't bother to post such mundane stuff, but it seems not too
many people are fishing, and the recent focus seems to be on a running ****ing
contest and (eeeewww!) Michael Moore. So here goes:

Early to mid June: The Swift River finally came alive. Sulphur and Caddis
hatches, with some fish moving upstream to feed, and the holdover stockies
catching on to the program. Early seson crowds were gone...fishing was good.

Mid June: Spent a week in northern New Hampshire fishing the Upper Connecticut
River. Water was low, Sulphurs, Caddis, & Lime Stoneflies hatching all day,
fish active on the surface. Averaged 20 fish a day, 90% on dries and emergers.
Nothing big on this trip, rainbows and brookies from 10" to 12" with a very few
in the 13" to 14" range. Only two salmon, (14" & 16"), on this trip. Flow was
only 100 CFS, so none of the big boys were tempted to move up from Lake
Francis.

Late June: Good fishing on the Swift continued until the 28th, when the river
was stocked. Attracted all kinds of attention, and disrupted the feeding
patterns of the resident fish. Also, the flow increased from 50 CFS to 120 CFS,
which, while not a bad thing, tends to slow down the surface activity.

Early July: Had a couple hours to spend on the Farmington in CT the other day,
so I went a few miles above the C&R section. I have a "secret spot" there that
is so good that even Stevie Wonder could tell you there were trout in it.
Caught seven browns from 10" to 16" and lost two *big* fish, one threw the
hook, and the other broke me off after taking me into my backing. Using #16
Sulphur Nymph on a 6X tippet. All this in a little less tha two hours.

That's it from me, what are the rest of you doing?




George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller