After an early spring of frustrated days of casting fly after fly into unforgiving waters, I can, at last, dispense some words of wisdom to those spring fishermen of the meandering and plentiful rivers of Vermont and New Hampshire. Have patience. Have patience because the stocking trucks will eventually arrive. If you’re lucky enough, they [...]
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The Fish That Dance Beneath Those Sparkling Waters
Posted in Fishing, meanderings, tagged ashuelot, black, cold, fishing, fly, new england, new hampshire, river, saxtons, stocking, vermont on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This Fishing Thing
Posted in Fishing, tagged cold, fishing, fly, larvae, river, salamanders, saxtons, trout, williams, woolly bugger on May 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Spring comes to Vermont. Green touches the trees, a coat of pollen on the truck. Black flies. Gray rainy skies with occasional breaks of sun. The Connecticut River big enough to bury familiar landmarks in a swirl of brown water. Fields flood. And black flies. Did I mention black flies? You would think that the [...]
Fly Fishing Journal: April 24
Posted in Fishing, tagged April, connecticut river, fishing, fly, rainbow trout, saxtons river, spring, vermont, woolly bugger on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, a fish! I spent a few hours today where the Saxtons River empties into the Connecticut River. The lower sections were fairly crowded with fisherman on a Sunday afternoon, so I started up beneath the Rt 5 bridge and cast into the tailwaters of a small waterfall spilling over the remains of an old [...]
Fly Fishing Journal: April 22
Posted in Fishing, tagged bridge, copper john, fishing, I 91, river, stonefly, vermont, williams on April 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The weather has been miserable around here lately… cold and rain. Today some snow to start the day. But yesterday was a glorious sunny day with light winds – i couldn’t help but give fishing another try. The destination was the Williams River, which flows through Chester and near Rt. 103 until it meets the [...]
Fly Fishing Journal: April 10, 2011
Posted in Fishing, Vermont, tagged April, fishing, fly, hatch, river, saxtons, stonefly, vermont on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Well, here in Vermont the fishing season opened yesterday, and with the temperature breaking sixty degrees and the sun shining, I took an over-ambitious trip to the upper end of the Saxtons River for some early season nymphing practice. As has been the case for me so far in Vermont, there was nary a fish. [...]
Spring Fishing
Posted in Fishing, tagged brook, cold, fishing, fly, new hampshire, river, trout, vermont, woolly bugger on March 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The tide has turned in the last week or so. The sun higher, the days longer, the smiles coming. About ten days ago I noted the first turkey vulture of the spring floating in, and just a few days ago an American kestrel bounced its tail and head as it came to a perch. There [...]
The Saxtons River, day 1
Posted in Fishing, tagged fishing, fly, river, saxtons, vermont on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Late morning found me carrying my fishing gear the mile or less down to the gentle waters of the Saxtons River above the bridge (and falls) in town. I’m no fisherman, and I have never fished here in Vermont, but my aims were twofold–to see if the recent rains and rising river had magically produced [...]
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