TL;DR: Midge flies, #24 and smaller. I hit the same area where I went last week and had some good success. With flows back to normal, I wanted to see whether the fishing would change. I arrived at dawn. Already, fish were rising for Farmington Caddis. Now, that bug (Dolophilodes distinctus) is interesting. It does
Category: Brown Trout
The Farmington Survivor Strain Program
One of the reasons the flows have been cut is that CT DEEP today is collecting larger fish for the Farmington Survivor Strain program. The goal is to take the big holdovers, which have proven to be adaptive, back to the hatchery to collect their DNA (more here). They then are returned to the river.
Big Farmington Browns on Dry Flies and Emergers
What a day. Good fish. Many bugs. Farmington. Dry flies. View this post on Instagram A post shared by BlogFlyFish.com (@blogflyfish) It did not start off well. After hitting the river at dawn and suiting up, I reached into the car to get my Euro rod…and pulled my back. After gritting my teeth, I
Spinning Technique at the Farmington
Well, Labor Day Eve was rainy and cold. That didn’t bode well for fishing, but, the next day, I headed out to the Farmington. As I’ve written before, September for me is the toughest non-winter month. Fortunately, I early on landed two fish, both grizzled stockies, a good-sized rainbow and a Survivor Strain brown. Then,
