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2019 maggot fish gazing and shit talking
Nice pics people..
Got a chance to go fishing again Sunday. Got some beta that March Browns, Quill Gordon’s, Blue Quills had been going off on the Davidson, so I stomp back there instead of a blue line I had in mind. Beautiful bluebird day in the 60’s...what could go wrong?
A nice weekend after what seemed like rain for every weekend since November is what was wrong.
Every swinging dick within 4 states was there. I find a pull off with no apparent cars nearby, go down the water and some dude, appears 50 ft from me upstream around the bend. Doesn’t stop, say sorry and head back up but starts to cast. Immediately hang up and starts cursing...I watch, say fuck it and go back to the truck. There was no pull off upstream anywhere close, so no clue where he came from.
Pull over at a picnic area (mistake 2) just to take a look. Only people there were 2 old ladies that were eating lunch. Got out just to look at the water, saw a big rise in the pool...grabbed my rig and backtrack down stream a ways and get in the water. I hadn’t made two casts when these yahoos show up.Attachment 276029.
They hustle down real quick bait up with what appeared to be worms and big weights and start chucking. (It’s a C&R Flies only section). The dude on the right was using a surf rod, upside down for style points. I stay there a minute still casting to where I saw the rise, till dude splashes his rig in the same place. I throw my hands up and yell something...and proceed to splash through the hole as loud as possible. I tell them they are illegal (fishing). Get to the parking area and 4 more people are getting out their gear trying to untangle the biggest bird nest I’ve ever seen. I tell them they can’t use that gear there, throw my shit in the truck and get in. One dude comes over and asks, “we can’t fish here?” I said not with that you can’t...he didn’t understand me....
Rest of the day I was just pissed off. Caught one Pune, and broke one off due to my shitty knot skills.
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2019 maggot fish gazing and shit talking
Several years ago, a decrepit dam was removed above my favorite local wild and sea run trout stream. The dam removal was done in the most efficient and budget way possible. As a result of its haphazard removal, the stream was choked to death with fine sediment. Over the last few years, I have watched the stream fester through warm summer temps. Nothing survived, not even panfish.
It has been heartbreaking.
Fast forward to the last year. We have had a lot of rain, much of it torrential. This precipitation has essentially flushed the stream clean. I have been checking on it and observing a slow return to life. The freestone bottom is visible again. The banks have regrown healthy vegetation. And, insects are visibly active (not just horse flies).
Yesterday, the weather was beautiful: sunny, no wind, 50 degrees. I took walk over to look at the stream and I saw a slight movement. Upstream, I saw something even better as a trout rose to take down a caddis. I grabbed my gear and fished for an hour, the first time I wet a line in this stream in 4 years. I am excited to report that my little stream has returned to life. The fish are not trophies, but they are to me. I shared my photos with a few CT state fisheries folks. The stream has not been stocked. These are wild fish or, more likely, young sea runs of the Iloki strain.
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