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The future plan is to move the blog over there! Take care and think spring!

What nymph should I use?

 

The first consideration in selecting which nymph pattern to use should be the bottom composition.

With silty muddy bottoms or during high water periods after rain...Black rules! Steelhead guys who often face stained water love purple/blue uv highlights. Here in New England, a black hare's ear is a go to April fly.

With sandy bottoms you should consider tan hare's ear nymphs to be your first choice. Especially if your hatches consist of pale colored mayflies like cahills, sulfurs or yellow drakes.

Weedy bottoms calls for olive nymphes! I dye gray squirrel fur with yellow rite dye and a shot of vinegar to produce this pattern.

Rocky bottoms which are the mainstay here in New England call for a dark brown nymph. Those who have looked inside my chest box will tell you, this is my GO TO nymph. The dubbing is a red squirrel base with

assorted uv highlights.

It's wise to have size 10, 12, 14, and 16's in the color the fits your situation. The bigger flies carry more weight which will get deep faster. Thank you for the view and please stay tuned. I plan to try to make sense out of the different european techinques, where and how they may apply here. Take care and let's go fishing!

 

Top 10 Battenkill dry flies

My top ten “go to” guide dry flies for the Battenkill region.

1. Deer hair no hackle caddis 2. Yellow adams wulff

3. Spirit of Pittsford Mills 4. Ausable wulff

5. Dun usual compradun 6. Rusty usual compradun

7. CDC trico spinner 8. Rusty hackle wing spinner

9. Sulfur hackle wing spinner 10. CDC BWO

Tie one on! If they work here, they WILL work there!

UGLY BUGS & How to tie them

 

The UglyBug is a pattern I develped over the last bunch of guide seasons! 

Tie some, they are deadly, easy to tie and materials are easy to source.

Materials: 3/0 Danville (from NH) waxed color to match body

Squirrel dubbing from gray, red and fox with UV highlights. 

When collecting roadkills or bird feeder pests I freeze whole and shave

with a barber buzzer. The UV use little of this and that but REMEMBER:

LESS is MORE! 

Soft Hackle can be woodcock as shown, hungarian or hen pheasant 

Thorax/head a dark brown squirrel blend with black peacock uv

 Build up a thread base, the waxed thread helps hold the dubbing.                                         Dubbing loop and ruff it up to get that buggy look. If you get the dubbing right,                        the flash & fibers look very much like the air bubble on a hatching caddis pupa! 

 

Tie the soft hackle tip end first...wrap forward and then wrap thread back over the hackle

to fold back. All feathers have a natural bend, an inner & outer side...don't work against it.

Loose dub a head / thorax and wrap a couple thread wraps through it to firm up. 2-3 wraps

RUFF IT UP!!!! Don't be shy

The blend is like asking your grandmother for a recipe:) its a pitch of this and that

Keys>  small coffee / herb blender and a barber buzzer for 20 bucks. Frozen critter! 

UGLY BUG ~ TIE ONE ON!

BEGINNERS WELCOME

 Beginners with realistic expectations are welcome at Vermont Fishing Trips. All gear & equipment provided.   Trips are half day (4 hrs) and are private. Catch & release

First trout on a fly are a forever memory!

Call Chuck Kashner at 1(800) 682-0103

to discuss details for the 2022 fly fishing season.

Please leave a VM!!! Busy hands are happy hands &

Chuck doesn’t sit by the phone very well!!!

Father Son trip

   "Hey Chuck, Thanks again for taking us out, had a great time and learned alot!

We'll definitely let you know when we're back in the area for some fishing." Eric S.

"NO BIG ROCKS OR STEEP BANKS"

 No problem, we can do that! If your mobility is limited it should NOT stop you for going with a guide....BUT a strong word of advise: TELL YOUR GUIDE IN ADVANCE.

2021 FISH FLOP FRIDAY WINNER!

 The 2021 FFF Winner is longtme client James K....beware they are slippery buggers!

NO FISH WERE HARMED! I watched the fish rocket right back to his lie.

2021 in Review

Vermont Fishing Trips had a soft reopening in 2021 running limited trips with regular longtime clients.

After the closed year, this spring was all about making good with clients from the closure.

 In the coming 2022 season, all trips will be half days (4hrs) only.

Thanks for the view and the continued support!

Re opening May 10th 2021

 

New client feedback

I had the utmost pleasure fishing with a guide this July, which is something I haven’t done very often and his name is Chuck Kashner. He is one of the most seasoned fisherman I have ever met and I do believe he just might be able to catch trout in a rain puddle. I'm 62 and have been fishing most of my life but never fly fishing for trout. I decided to try it 2 seasons ago and am self taught and that means I just might have some issues. Well Chuck and I went to the first 

hole, he rigged my fly rod and showed me the readings on the water and where the drifts should be according. It was only three drifts and bang a beautiful bow on the end of my line, we got it in and made some pictures and Chuck already had a read on me and all my bad habits and wasn’t afraid to tell me about them in his joking manner. But in the end he was a great instructor, very patient, wanted you to catch as many fish as you can and just as excited if not more than you when you set the hook on a trout. Had I known the numbers of quality fish I was going to catch that morning I would have never slept a wink the night before and when he says beginners welcomed he means it. Chuck thank you for everything and I’ll be back next year.

Ray Browning

Vermont Fly Fishing Instruction & Guide Service

Vermont Fly Fishing for Trout is HOT! Daily half day morning trips in July and August, all gear is provided, Beginners are welcome. 

Please call  Chuck Kashner at 1-800-682-0103 for reservations

Vermont Fly Fishing Instruction & Guide Service

The 2019 Annual Father's Day Classic was EPIC! 

Vermont Fly Fishing Instruction & Guide Service

May and June were AWESOME! Fly fishing for trophy trout has been excellent. Daily trips start in Manchester,Vt. Call 1-800-682-0103 for reservations. Beginners are welcome! All gear is provided.

Wet vest deep and surrounded by Brown Trout.

Come to Vermont & Learn to Fly Fish with Vermont Fishing Trips

Private groups (you and yours),  hands on instruction, all gear is provided

Beginners are welcome

Call Chuck Kashner 1 800 682-0103

First fish caught on a fly are special!

Email for openings cdkashner@gmail.com