Connecticut Trout
Aaron, Juice & Myself (Torrey) had some serious fun today on the Farmington. Once again, nymphs were the ticket, and the fish were big! Our group tally for fish landed (all browns today) was somewhere in the upper teens, with Aaron getting the most, and me having the biggest (but not by much). The smallest was 15 or 16", and the fish of the day taped out at 19 1/4"- 17-18" was the "typical" fish today, believe it or not. That's some quality trout. Aaron actually caught a Salmon Parr that decided to stay in the Farmington and get bigger- it was about 13"- I guess at that size you cannot rightfully call it a Parr anymore, right? Water was moderately high, just the way I like it, and it was a little off-color, with that tannic iced tea look to it. Late morning water temp was about 36, and it never got past 38 degrees- the sun was supposed to come out but it only showed it's face for about 20 minutes all day. I was very impressed with the fishing- we worked for them, but caught more than enough nice ones to keep us grinning all day. Most of the trout had a green dye mark behind their left eye, so I assume they were probably 2 year olds stocked in April '06, but I was told that they did the green dye marks 3 or so years ago also, so I guess a couple could go back even that far. Two of my bigger ones, including the 19+ incher, had no marks whatsoever on them, and in my estimation were multi-year holdovers. All trout fought surprisingly well given water temps still in the 30's. Quite a few people out when we started in late morning, and then we had all the spots we fished to ourselves. Gotta like that. Juice has really picked up the fly fishing fast, having "gotten serious" about it less than a year ago, and did some damage today. Aaron was playing with his 12 1/2 ' Winston Spey rod and doing some cool stuff with it, hitting spots way out in the middle and getting some long-ass drifts. Spey master Jerry Jahns gave him a few pointers. A "day for kings", right Aaron?
These are trout that were caught on the Housatonic river on Dec 9. the larger fish was 22 1/4 inches and the smaller one was 20.5". these were two of 18 fish caught for the day. The fishing was excellent!!! All fish were caught eggs and stoneflies.
December 19th was the “ best day ever” on the Housatonic. In one pool I conservatively caught over forty trout. I only left because I got too cold and needed to warm up. The crazy thing is that this was only one stop. Needless to say that not every spot was like the first one. The coolest thing about this day was that I caught at least three from every spot. When you add all this up, I caught at least 60 trout conservatively. It was the kind of day that you couldn’t believe even though I was experiencing it. I was in the zone all day and the fish were extremely cooperatively as well. The highlight of the day is the trout in the picture. The trout measured 20 ½ inches.
These are 3 trout that were caught on 12/31 on the Housatonic River. These are three of over thirty caught for the day. Most of these trout came on stonflies this day.
A variety of Pictures from a few different trips.
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