Monday, May 18, 2009
Its Green
Hit another stream in the Berkshires this past weekend. Things are really greening up and the fishing just continues to get better. Many fish were brought to hand including a monster for this stream and a fish that appeared to have been bitten by something.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
May Begins
5/9/09 and 5/10/09
Fished a stream in the Berkshires again today. The fish have officially begun to look up for food and dry fly fishing is on fire. 10-15 fish were brought to hand and at least three times that many were missed. I also managed to hook my finger pretty good today. I have never done that before and I never want to again. It was Karma biting me back as I had switched to a barbed fly an hour earlier in hopes of loosing less fish. With a fresh barb on the fly now lodged an 1/8th of an inch in my thumb, I had no choice but to push the hook out the other side so I could break the barb off the hook. Fun!
No pictures this week, forgot the camera at home.
5/3/09
Hit my local brookie stream, fish were still a little sluggish and bunched up due to low water levels. I did manage to catch a number of fish, most of them out of this hole.
5/2/09
Fishing is beginning to pick up as the water has begun to warm. In picked up my first fish on a dry fly last weekend on tiny stream in MA. This was a neat little stream that originates in a couple of beaver ponds. Played with a few brookies in the ponds but couldn't quite get them to take the fly. I can't wait to get back to fish the lower reaches of this stream.
Fished a stream in the Berkshires again today. The fish have officially begun to look up for food and dry fly fishing is on fire. 10-15 fish were brought to hand and at least three times that many were missed. I also managed to hook my finger pretty good today. I have never done that before and I never want to again. It was Karma biting me back as I had switched to a barbed fly an hour earlier in hopes of loosing less fish. With a fresh barb on the fly now lodged an 1/8th of an inch in my thumb, I had no choice but to push the hook out the other side so I could break the barb off the hook. Fun!
No pictures this week, forgot the camera at home.
5/3/09
Hit my local brookie stream, fish were still a little sluggish and bunched up due to low water levels. I did manage to catch a number of fish, most of them out of this hole.
5/2/09
Fishing is beginning to pick up as the water has begun to warm. In picked up my first fish on a dry fly last weekend on tiny stream in MA. This was a neat little stream that originates in a couple of beaver ponds. Played with a few brookies in the ponds but couldn't quite get them to take the fly. I can't wait to get back to fish the lower reaches of this stream.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Today looked like it should have been a great day of early spring fishing with temperatures in the 50's but to my surprise I found a completely different world 1500ft up in elevation. As I headed to my chosen fishing spot for the day, I noticed a car with snow on its hood and roof...hmmm. Continuing up in elevation snow began to make an appearance on the ground, by the time I reached my destination there was 3 or 4 inches on the ground. The water on this particular stream was up 8 to 12 inches from it's average flows and the water was cold at 39 degrees. I didn't have any luck today, too cold and running too high I guess. I did manage to take a nice spill into the chilly water which both shortened my trip significantly and banged up my knee. Its time to figure this falling thing out...
3/28 and 3/29
Saturday
I had the opportunity to fish this nice little stream while Lindsay, Susan, and Katelyn basked in he beauty of the first truly nice day of spring. This stream is pretty small but was running high and cold due to snow melt. Fishing was pretty slow until later in the afternoon. Lost my camera on this trip, when I bent over to release a fish it took a swim. Needless to say, that was the end of the pictures for the day.
Sunday
Cold, wet, and dreary describe this day. Since my camera is dead there are no pictures from this trip. Caught a couple of small brookies and got a couple of little fish to rise for dries, this is a great sign that good fishing is only weeks a way.
Saturday
I had the opportunity to fish this nice little stream while Lindsay, Susan, and Katelyn basked in he beauty of the first truly nice day of spring. This stream is pretty small but was running high and cold due to snow melt. Fishing was pretty slow until later in the afternoon. Lost my camera on this trip, when I bent over to release a fish it took a swim. Needless to say, that was the end of the pictures for the day.
Sunday
Cold, wet, and dreary describe this day. Since my camera is dead there are no pictures from this trip. Caught a couple of small brookies and got a couple of little fish to rise for dries, this is a great sign that good fishing is only weeks a way.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
I guess its time to get this thing rolling for the 2009 fishing season. My hope with this blog is to document my fishing throughout the season and maybe some other legal materials/topics a long the way.
Here are my first two days out this season.
3/7/09 My B-Day!
After a couple of long cold months of winter it looked like conditions were shaping up for a great day on the water, temperatures were in the upper 40's and I thought most of snow had melted off based upon the weeks falling stream gauge readings. Heading through the foothills of the Taconics, it appeared that I jumped the gun as many of the streams in NY were still iced over and the presence of snow steadily increased over my 30 minute drive into MA. I had planned on fishing a stream on the far side of the mountain but rather than drive all the way over there only to be snubbed by ice, I decided to check a closer stream first(this one [url]http://www.smallstreams.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2815[/url]). This stream was pretty much iced over with only a few seams of open water. Having nothing else to do and since it is/was my birthday, I decided to check out my original destination. After a long slippery walk down to the stream, I was rewarded with some open water. I was able to get in some not so tranquil fishing in thanks to the lovely exhaust note from a few "assmobiles" running through the woods and chainsaws run by loggers trying to squeeze a few more days of cutting in.
As you can see from the pictures the water was probably a little too frigid for the fish to be active (if they are even there) and no fish were brought to hand or even stirred up. Not to be denied, I decided to fish one of the small valley streams...
I hope everyone enjoys...
And thanks to my GF for a great birthday!
3/15/09
I got a chance to hit the water today. Since my usual haunts up in the mountains are still too cold to fish, I hit a valley stream again this week. To my surprise I hooked these beauties all w/in a 1/4 mile of stream...
A wee Brookie
A "Buttery" Brown
And to my surprise a "Colorful" Rainbow. I really like the markings on this fish, a bit different than the rainbows I am used to in Vermont.
Didn't get many pictures of the scenery. Its not the most beautiful of waterway, but the wild fish make up for it...
Here are my first two days out this season.
3/7/09 My B-Day!
After a couple of long cold months of winter it looked like conditions were shaping up for a great day on the water, temperatures were in the upper 40's and I thought most of snow had melted off based upon the weeks falling stream gauge readings. Heading through the foothills of the Taconics, it appeared that I jumped the gun as many of the streams in NY were still iced over and the presence of snow steadily increased over my 30 minute drive into MA. I had planned on fishing a stream on the far side of the mountain but rather than drive all the way over there only to be snubbed by ice, I decided to check a closer stream first(this one [url]http://www.smallstreams.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2815[/url]). This stream was pretty much iced over with only a few seams of open water. Having nothing else to do and since it is/was my birthday, I decided to check out my original destination. After a long slippery walk down to the stream, I was rewarded with some open water. I was able to get in some not so tranquil fishing in thanks to the lovely exhaust note from a few "assmobiles" running through the woods and chainsaws run by loggers trying to squeeze a few more days of cutting in.
As you can see from the pictures the water was probably a little too frigid for the fish to be active (if they are even there) and no fish were brought to hand or even stirred up. Not to be denied, I decided to fish one of the small valley streams...
I hope everyone enjoys...
And thanks to my GF for a great birthday!
3/15/09I got a chance to hit the water today. Since my usual haunts up in the mountains are still too cold to fish, I hit a valley stream again this week. To my surprise I hooked these beauties all w/in a 1/4 mile of stream...
A wee Brookie
A "Buttery" Brown
And to my surprise a "Colorful" Rainbow. I really like the markings on this fish, a bit different than the rainbows I am used to in Vermont.
Didn't get many pictures of the scenery. Its not the most beautiful of waterway, but the wild fish make up for it...
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