Well a week after the crash I was able to get free and find some time to fish. The place the Farmington river. A beautiful fishery and so much better than last year. Water flows are still to high for my liking but I find the slower pockets and work them. This day was one of looking at beauty rather than catching beauty, but there was some of the latter and it was earned.
Stepping into the river I made my first cast, a nice drift. I picked up my line and slowly cast again. The fly was moved back and forth by the current until it stopped and straightened out. As i lifted the rod tip a fish hit, and he hit hard. I had a good hook-up and the fight was on, and then off. Boy that was a nice fish. I was to continue fishing for a couple of hours without so much as a bump.
Even without action in the water there is action along the sidelines. This little pollinator was busy as a bee. He had lots of competition.
I reached a lovely section of water and moved some flies through the slow seams. On one such drift my line stopped and suddenly went upstream. I pulled and the hook set.
Finally a wild Farmington brookie was at hand. He was gorgeous with the sunlight glistening off his back. With that I called it a day.
I was blessed many times today, and I say thanks.
shame you lost the nice fish Alan, but at least you know where he now lives, Nice write up again mate
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George
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George I do know where he lives, now if I can remember. Ha Ha those things we never forget.
Alan
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Pete it was a delight. Even the tubers were friendly.
Alan - Nice to see that you found some wild trout on the Farmington! They make the trip especially nice don't they.
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Mark I was fortunate to take what I did on a slow day. Probably would have done better bouncing nymphs.
Enjoyable.
Excellent post. So relaxing to read through your text and photos.
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Fred, welcome....enjoy and search all of the previous posts.
Very nice. It's often said that you can have an enjoyable outing on the stream without even catching a fish. While that might be true, at least one makes it even better!
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Mike walking back to the car at the end of the day is much more pleasant with out that smell of skunk.
Hi Alan,
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Although you didn't have many hook ups, it still looks like you had a good day on the river. From the pictures it looks like a really nice stretch of river.
On Monday I had a trip up into Teesdale on the border between North Yorks and County Durham in North East England and had a similar experience to yours - high flow pushing through the river and a good missed trout. Like yours, I also know where he lives, however I am not sure when I will get back for round 2 this season!
Alistair
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Alistair, great to be back. Still figuring things out.
It was enjoyable to fish again and the real pleasure of bringing a wild jewel to hand was the crowning.
I must get a map of Britain so I can track your movements and trout haunts.
Alan, I'm sorry about the nice one that got off, but am glad you enjoyed the beautiful water and streamside scenery of that gem of a river along with the wild brook trout. I look forward to my next trip there hopefully in the near future.
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Sam dropping a good fish comes with the thought that at least you had the hook-up, and there's always tomorrow.
The Farmy is worth the time spent on it. Go Sox.
Back in the 80's I fished the Farmington with Sox pitcher Rob Woodward.
Alan
ReplyDeleteGorgeous water and even more beautiful brook trout. I may have ask you this but is the Farmington a tailrace? Thanks for sharing
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Bill the Farmington is a tail water. But as it travels down to it's meeting to the Conecticut it has many tributaries which alter the effects of the bottom of the dam releases. The river becomes more fertile the further away from the dam because of the temps and nutrients that are added as the tributaries kick in.