I took some of my new dry flies for some “dries or die” spins. The size 30 CDC Midge Emerger worked like a charm. Purple got looks, but black received many takes. The Renegade did well sporadically, but, mostly at choppy water. And, smaller fish really liked the “Hi-Viz” Griffith’s Gnat. A tough fish to
Category: Rainbow Trout
Report: the Westfield’s East Branch
A low-volume outing with water cold and high. But, made contact and learned much. #contactnymphrod #thomasandthomasflyrods #euronymphing #flyfishing A post shared by BlogFlyFish (@blogflyfish) on May 13, 2017 at 2:41pm PDT (Note, there are four pictures above. Hover over the image and click the right arrow.) Today was hard work. With another rainstorm approaching, I
Updates
A few general updates, fishing and otherwise, that might be of interest… First, according to the most recent deliberation of the state Drought Management Task Force, Massachusetts is finally back to normal (i.e., non-drought) conditions for the first time in over two years. The cool and rainy spring we’ve had has made up the rainfall
Saturday on the Swift
I fished the Swift River C&R section downstream from Route 9 this Saturday. I was scheduled to be in Amherst for work all day on Friday so I decided to just stay overnight and fish on Saturday. Unfortunately for me (but great for the rivers!) there had been an exceptional amount of rain earlier in