Thanks for another great season everybody!

Believe it or not, fishing season is over. Very sad for all of us. I did get to wet a line on the Connecticut River for one last time in 2010.

With the nor’easter blasting us all last night and most of today, let’s just say that it wasn’t a great day to be out there, at least that’s what I thought at first. That changed pretty quickly when I hooked a Trophy Stretch rainbow on a soft hackle streamer (gray), and then watched in amazement as a large, brightly colored trout chased, and missed, my streamer. I think it was one of those brood stock brookies that looked so brilliant in his fall colors. Anyway, I proceeded to land two acrobatic and very healthy landlocked salmon on the same streamer (picture below), and then a final native brook trout to close out my season.

A nice 16" salmon to close out the NH fishing season - not bad!

Maybe I’ll be able to fish in Vermont once in these next two weeks, if I’m not busy chasing gray ghosts of the feathered kind (grouse), but at least I had a few hours today. The last day of the season is always sad for many of us, but look at it this way, opening day for the Connecticut River is a mere 76 days away.

What will you be doing on January 1st? I know what I’ll be doing …