Opening Day of Vermont Trout Fishing

It was COLD this am....33 when I got up....we left at 9am to fish...first stop Flower Brook in Pawlet. The river was clear, cold and just a touch high to fly fish. So, Nick drifted some "garden hackle"...hit a couple holes and split to hit some brook trout stuff. In Dorset, we hit one of our favorite little Brookie holes. After 3 or 4 missed hits, Nick scored 3 in a row....Nice Brookies 8 to 10"ers. Off to Manchester and the branch of the Battenkill. 8' 4 weight temple fork in hand and Dad on his shoulder... we caught 5 more brookies and a brown. Today (as for the next week) was all about finding current seams and reduced current about waist deep with broken bottom (rocky) . Then using Tungsten BH hares ears with indicators....getting a dead drift...DEEP...to catch fish in the early season you need to lose some flies....if you aren't getting hits....add weight or increase the length of your tippet between indicator-fly... We ended the day back at Flower brook in Pawlet to catch a rainbow and complete a trout grand slam. The Mettawee/ Flower rainbows are thinking more about spawning than eating but we did manage a 10" bow to complete the slam. Just a great day overall...fishing was ok, was great to get back on the water and like every opening day....it was a quality day fishing with my son.