This was one of those days when you can just feel spring is around the corner – sunny and somewhat warm, with the shore ice breaking apart and floating past me like an iceberg in the North Atlantic, it certainly seems like it won’t be long now …

The Connecticut is still yielding fish here and there, if you’re willing to brave the ‘bergs.  Streamers are still the preferred method, and Jon actually did catch a salmon and missed another fish on his floating smelt today – an imitation of a wounded smelt bobbing down the river. Smelt patterns in general are what you should be using right now.

It was awfully bright today, so that may have kept the fish down a bit, but tomorrow is supposed to be rainy and warmer, and then next week looks consistently like spring (40s and 50s every day). It may be a good time to come up for some early season angling if you can break away from life for a while.  The flow out of Murphy is at a steady 220 CFS right now, so the deeper pools are where you want to be.  Just be sure to bring up your woolies – that water is pretty cold when your waders are leaky!

Give us a call at 1-800-835-6343 if you can make it up next week – we hope to see you on the water!