Janine from Hope on the Rise has been a good roll this week - nice brookies Janine!
Janine from Hope on the Rise has been a good roll this week – nice brookies Janine!

We had a a rise in the river flows from the dams yesterday, and that led to quite a few of our guests having a good day on the river as well. Lots of healthy brookies were caught and released, and a big salmon too. Let’s hope the water keeps flowing strong!

 

The river flow in the Trophy Stretch increased from 50 CFS to 151 CFS, so that really seemed to help the fish find a comfortable zone for feeding, as they were very active yesterday. It’s pretty hard to have good fishing when you have no water, and that’s what we had for the last week, but flows came up yesterday and that definitely put the fish in the mood for strapping the feed bag on.

Below Murphy Dam, the flow increased from 132 CFS to nearly 200 CFS, and while it is certainly an improvement, we typically see a flow in the 300 CFS range at this time of year. We do have some rain on the way over the next couple of days, so maybe that will help get a little more flow in this section.The no kill stretch between Second Connecticut Lake and First Connecticut Lake increased from 26 CFS to 51 CFS (which is!pretty close to normal for
summer months), so if you have a 2 wt. or 3 wt., you could have some fun chasing wild brook trout and landlocked salmon in this section.