Sorry guys, I’ve been swamped. Between classes and other commitments, I haven’t been able to get very much sleep let alone blog. Somehow, I found time to fish. 9/16/17 I called an audible. My plan was to stay local and explore nearby trout streams, but my friend Matt wanted to show his dad, an experienced
Category: Brown Trout
Adam Kautza: His Work and Photographs
Fellow blog writer Adam Kautza has many gifts. He has three degrees in fisheries and is the Coldwater Fisheries Biologist for MassWildlife. He is a talented public speaker. He’s also an incredible angler and photographer. The photos you see on the slider on our blog’s front page? They’re all Adam’s. I follow Adam on Instagram,
Farmington: Midge Flies
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
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.