I found time to fish after running a few errands. With limited time, I returned to the Souhegan. With the lack of rain in the past few weeks, the river was quite low for this time of year. Nevertheless, the water was at a promising 63 ˚F. Since I spotted two cars at my usual
Author: Ashu Rao
UNH Marine Bio. 2018. Avid Fly Fisher. Southern NH native
A Souhegan Report
I fished the Souhegan briefly after work this past week. I started off at a favorite spot by swinging streamers, my go-to for finding aggressive fish. Nothing. I changed flies and retrieves without so much as a bite. At this point, bugs were popping off like crazy, so I decided to switch to nymphing. After
Small Stream, Big Fish
Big flies for big fish isn’t an unusual concept. The logic behind using big flies is to get larger fish to bite, while simultaneously weeding out smaller ones. At the same time, big flies imitate high-energy meals, which is enough to draw large fish looking to expend little energy. This technique works in big rivers
A Squannacook Surprise
I fished the Squannacook briefly Friday afternoon. The river was stocked in a couple places on Thursday, and I ran into a quite a few fishermen. Despite the number of anglers present, most of them stuck to the big pools and left a lot of water alone. The few guys I talked to reported good