This is the time of the year when I am splitting my time between lake and river. Guiding fly fishing for trout on rivers and spin fishing for bass, pike and panfish on lakes. So here's what has been happening....
June 25th...an instructional day on a pond learning to fly cast and then some time on the Battenkill teaching clients to wade, cast, down and across, and "chuck and duck"...catching fish wasn't really an option because these folks had never fished for anything on any gear....no building blocks is a tough feat to catch fish with a fly. However this party was also in the book for tomorrow. Hence the plan was to line up all my ducks on day one....then knock them down tomorrow.
June 26th...Day 2....need to "catch"....went to the "sac" and we did catch trout. Wife caught 2 and husband 3. All nice Brown Trout....then the rain started.....man it has been wet this month....seems like it has rained every day for weeks. We caught swinging caddis pupa and dead drifting red midge worms. Very successful outing. Two first fish catches!
June 27th Lake fishing with my father/daughter regulars from Bennington....We caught a bunch of bass and a single pickeral. One of the bass was a 17" smallmouth (Brown Bass) which had a huge case of BAD ATTITUDE...I LOVE BROWN BASS.....they just are pissed off as soon as they get hooked....Today was the first day in a while that a rain coat wasn't needed. The bigger bass seem to be pulled off the bank....they move around but I have been seeing the last couple years that the bigger fish are getting away from the fishing pressure the visible bank cover gets.
June 28th Fly fishing for trout....I had this group last year in October and got humbled with them. Yes folks it does happen....I don't like it but it does happen....its called fishing not catching.
I was glad to get a second chance with them.....We went to my best two spots on the Walloomsac and hammered them pretty good. Hot flies: red midge, caddis dry and tungsten nymphs size 14.
The water levels have been all over the place but mother nature has been kind to me so far.
Today June 29th...Lake fishing with a grandfather and a 8 year old grandson. Today was a jig and crawler panfish fest while granddad caught about a dozen bass on shiners....Vermont fishing trips guide sevice will fly fish for trout always.....but on the lake I fish with whatever it thats.
We caught: Bluegills, pumkinseed, yellow perch, white perch, largemouth and smallmouth bass.
Bottom line....this child likes to fish!!!!This was his second time with me and there was a promise to do it again next year.
Tomorrow:::Trout fishing... up at O dark hundred hours....please stay tuned and I would like for you to sign up in the followers box and contribute...
