Connecticut River Fishing Report: 7/29
The kind of thing you like to see, especially if it’s your second cast of the day – a bent rod, with a tenacious rainbow on the other end …
The kind of thing you like to see, especially if it’s your second cast of the day – a bent rod, with a tenacious rainbow on the other end …
The Trophy Stretch continues to fish great . Actually, I’ve heard it’s AWESOME!
OMR guided Ginette White and myself yesterday on the Connecticut River. We did the upper drift from Canaan, VT to the Rest Area just north of Colebrook. We had a fabulous day. Lots of fish, especially at the top end of the drift.
Jon had us running two nymphs, a TH Pheasant Tail up front, with a BH Dirty Bird as the dropper. The Dirty Bird (OMR’s go to nymph)slayed em and the PT picked up a few nice trout as well. There were a few caddis around.
We picked up lots of really nice rainbows in the 13 to 14 inch range, a few brook trout and one brown.
We also ran into a few rising fish. We noticed Blue Wing Olives coming off also. My BWO dry fly of choice is the Challenged Pheasant Tail and it worked great on those feeding fish.
We got several more trout in the afternoon still nymphing but then I did decided to change it up and bang the banks with a Zoo Cougar. The Zoo Cougar moved a few fish and I landed several nice rainbows. I did hook a monster Brown??? that was laying by a log jam. That got my heart pumping.
Next time Mr. Brown……I know where you live!
We had a great shore lunch, with some adult beverages and the weather cooperated too. It was a great day to be on the Upper Connecticut River.
The Trophy Stretch is still fishing well and the water flows are great from all three dams in Pittsburg. Cold water too.
If you can sneak away, especially mid week, come on up for some great trout fishing.
That’s a funny looking rainbow that our fly fishing guide Dave Poole caught last week below Murphy Dam. Big head, but small body – looks like a lake trout out of a lake that doesn’t have enough smelt in it. Dave said that this had been a large fish at some point, but he went on something that I need unfortunately – a diet. Whatever the case, this fish was released to (hopefully) fatten up for another day.
Yes, there is apparently another body of water in Pittsburg with a healthy Hexagenia Limbata hatch – Round Pond.
Happy 4th of July everybody!
That’s a beauty of a brook trout that Griffin Nyhan is holding from last week – he’s an old pro at it now, and his dad Chip seems to be his personal photographer these days, chronicling Griffin’s angling adventures.