Here in the northeast have been blessed with some substantial rains over the last week. This rainfall has been a big plus in the to the anglers who fish small streams. These streams will rise very swiftly, filling to the brim, and almost as fast as they come up they recede. Fishing can be pretty good a few days after such an event, it seems to move fish around and take their fears down a notch.
This was the case one day last week for me. The stream was about perfect. The weather was a close second, the only problem was there was no breeze at all, real still. This prompted those tiny midges to fly about your face and become a pain in the a#*. That aside I tied on that cream colored parachute the one with the red underbody. This fly has been working so very well the last few weeks, and this day was no exception.
In this stream it seems that if there is a hemlock close to the water there's a good chance there will be a brook trout in hiding. And that was the case today.
The parachute didn't stand a chance this day.
Wild perfection.
Ant patterns are know to bring very selective trout to the surface, not so selective trout crush them. The only problem with fishing ants is they can't be seen to the angler. I picked up this ant pattern up last week in the Catskills. It's foam which makes it float well, plus it has a white tip that makes it very visible.
This ant fished well in various water types, fast, slow and it even worked as it got sucked under.
These brookies were fooled by the "top hat ant".
As I write this the weatherman is calling for rain today, perhaps an inch plus. Hopefully I'll be able to get in a couple hours on the stream before it starts, if not that's OK by me, for I'll take the rain and so will the trout.
I used to be able to eat this sandwich three times a week. Since happenings a year or so ago I might enjoy this three times a year. Well one of those three times came the other day. Local kielbasa, sauerkraut and onion on "Pittsfield Baking Co. rye bread.
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