Tom Caron dispenses advice, wisdom, and bs in the pursuit of trout and salmon daily for Tall Timber guests.
The title of a favorite Toots & the Maytals song is also appropriate for our change in the weather this weekend. The recent stretch of summer-like weather is over for the moment, and we can look forward to daytime temps in the 50’s and 60’s for the next week. It was HOT this past week, reaching 85 (perhaps even higher) several days in a row, making for challenging conditions for the anglers that were with us.
When you live and recreate in northern New England, you look forward to the sun coming out. It seems like there’s some months when it rarely, if ever, makes an appearance, so when it’s out you tend to take advantage of those occasions. If you’re an angler though, the sun can be a hindrance to your fishing pursuits. It usually results in wary fish, afraid to be discovered by predators, both aerial and on two legs.
Very sorry for the delay in submitting an updated post to the Fishing Blog. A litter of ten German Shorthaired Pointer pups has brought any hopes of spring fishing to a screeching halt for me, so I have been relying on the reports of guides and fishing friends for what’s been happening.
We’re at the start of the trout fishing season yet again in New Hampshire, but that’s not altogether right. Fishing on the Connecticut River has been open since January 1, so some of us up here have been fishing right along through the mild winter that we just had. However, the season opens on all NH trout waters this Saturday, April 22.
Fishing season on the upper Connecticut River will be here before we all know it. Seems hard to believe in the depths of winter, but it’s only a few months away now, and the Pittsburg Anglers Association is hard at work to make sure it gets off to a flying start.
It’s that time of the fishing season, where you might be tying up your proven fly patterns, planning your next fishing excursion, or dreaming of hooking an acrobatic salmon or bully of a brown on a glorious summer day.
While it seems like fishing season is a distant memory, it is really just around the corner – only five months away here in northern New Hampshire, and this just might be the perfect time to talk some fishing, or plan your next trip to the upper Connecticut River and Tall Timber.