Well here we go, down the river toward the dog days of summer, Thats what I should be saying about now but man! its been in the sixties and seventies and wet for about the past three weeks! I think that most fisher folks in the area are feeling a mix of emotions about this, some love the high water and some love the low, I suppose I’ll take what I can get! It has been spotty as far as what rivers are getting the precip and the parts that are gettin’ it are really gettin’ it! I had a trip on a local river this week and we were definately learn the balance of the fly fishing zen. Standing in the river on the edge of a run and fishing a seam which was half river in spate(high and muddy) and half seamingly crystal clear in comparison. A true analogy for our current situation here! This fishing is holding it own however, in the conditions I just spoke of my client hooked into a beautiful 20+ inch rainbow which in the end he did’nt land but just goes to show that when in doubt look to the pockets. At this point the weather continues on the same track with the potential for a high of sixty on sunday with showers from now till who knows! I spent this past sunday on the Upper Connecticut river in northern N.H. I was on a strecth of river with several points of acess and a 1oo to 1 ratio, one hundred pounds of human to every one pound of fish! It was crowded! My buddy and I were fishing a pool that was about eighty feet long and we had positioned oursevles strategically to fish the pool and cover all holds, about 15 minutes in two fellas came wading in no more than 10 feet below us, with no thought or consideration of the fact that they walked into the holding water right below without even asking if this worked for us, now given the conditions (high fast water) we brushed it off and went and found our own water which turned out to be more productive! I have spent some time lately discussing ethics on the water with another guide and we can all agree that its taboo to wade into a pool that already is being enjoyed by someone else, often times you will have a much more enjoyable experience working your own water and you will always learn something new! Ultimately we ended up leaving and went and found a river with no one on it and fished for native brook trout! often time we tend to forget whats right under our nose in search of the perfect water only to come back to what we once lost sight of! Hope these dog days to come leads you all to beautiful fish and friendly and uncrowded water! Peace
