Friday, June 11, 2010

This weekend in the Battenkill region of Southern Vermont

With the rain we got our water levels are at normal June levels. Fishing will be good morning, noon and in the evening. I wish it were June or October year around. So here is a fly list of what you should be throwing:

Nymphs: bead heads dk. tan 10, 12, 14, march browns 12, 14, light cahill wet, kashner caddis pupa, caddis emergers, black ant wets 12, 14, queeche brown nymphs 14, 16

Streamers: bh olive woolly buggers 12, shushan postmasters, thunder creek dace, bh muddlers

Dry flies: Caddis 14, 16 tan, rusty spinners 14, 16, sulfur usual/compradun 14, 16, ausable wulff 14, 16,

Tomorrow, June 12th is a free fishing day....no licence is needed....and it is the opening day of Bass fishing.

The fishing is very good on the Battenkill, Mettawee, Walloomsac, Otter Creek and Hoosic Rivers. Go fishing!!!!