----------------------------------------- 2005 ----------------------------------------------------HOUSATONIC RODS
MAYthe river by month:Photos & text © Wm Abrams - protected by copyright See copyright information HERE for details
May 23 2005 - 53 degrees - 9:05 PM
tiny sz 22-26 spinners cover the water at dusk
small Chub fry along the banks - time for little Bucktail streamers
May 15 2005 - 59 degrees - 8:20 PM
thunderstorms and rain arrive at sunset - fish rose through the rain to Olives, Caddis and H spinners
May 10 2005 - 68 degrees - 7:00 PM
May 9 2005 - 63 degrees - 6:40 PM
May 5 2005 - 59 degrees - 7:30 PM
Ian Forbes works a riser in the tail of the Meadows
May 5 2005 - 62 degrees - 12:30 PM
some folk have suggested there weren't enough photos of me on the site, so:
yours truly, sidearm casting on a small Brookie stream
IAN FORBES PHOTO/S
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May 26 2004 - 44
degrees - 7:20AM
what a surprise I had with
temps in the damp 40s this AM:
but it wasn't snow - it was
cottonwood/dandelion fluff
backwater looking more
typical of the season -
May 24 2004 - 71
degrees - 3:30PM
May 20 2004 - 64
degrees - 7:30PM
tiny spinners, sipping fish,
patient fishermen
May 19 2004 - 67
degrees - 12:10PM
spider webs tell last
night's story:
May 17 2004 - 64
degrees - 7PM
beautiful, calm evening,
plenty of insects in the air and on the water - but few rising fish
before 7PM
the Stenonemas have arrived:
Steno spinners heavy after dark(L), fresh March
Brown(R)
at dark, Crane Flies, at least four types of
spinners (szs 10-24) and two kinds of Caddis (szs 14&20) on the
water
May 11 2004 - 69
degrees - 9:10PM
Caddis, Caddis shucks and
Hendrickson spinners cover the water after dark
And the fish are on them.
May 11 2004 - 85
degrees - 2:30PM - finally, green leaves
May 7 2004 - 78
degrees - 4:00PM - Ken Corey works out a vintage Leonard 4099 at
the Farmington
May 2 2004 - 56
degrees - 3:40PM - healthy watershed, healthy amphibians (Spring
Peeper - NE coqui)
May 1 2004 - 71
degrees - 9:50AM - the water has cleared-up
Good trout rising to a
rhythm for spinners in the morning:
May 28 2003 - 55
degrees - 9 AM
can anyone identify these
wildflowers?
(someone has suggested Monotropa
Hypopitys or Uniflower - Pinesap or a pink Indian
Pipe?)
May 27 2003 - 50
degrees - 8:45 AM
AM Olives & Caddis
and in flight at 4:30PM:
May 26 2003 - 54
degrees - 4:25 PM
high water & thousands
of BWOs in the rain
May 25 2003 - 62
degrees - 3:35 PM
male Stenonema takes first
flight
May 20 2003 - 63
degrees - 9:15 AM
still a number of spent
spinners on the water in AM - as well as the Caddis
May 19 2003 - 80
degrees - 4:25 PM
Smallie on nest
stonefly case
May 19 2003 - 58
degrees - 8:45 AM
May 18 2003 - 72
degrees - 5:00 PM
Caddis pupa
May 16 2003 - 56
degrees - 3:20 PM
plenty of blown-over Olives
on the water this afternoon
May 14 2003 - 51
degrees - 9:00 AM
Some Caddis but very few
risers this AM
feeding Swallows (above) and
Poison Ivy seems to be popping up everywhere
May 13 2003 - 54
degrees - 9:10 AM
more Caddis in the air -
some splashy Caddis rises despite the high water
cause/effect
May 12 2003 - 56
degrees - 4:30 PM
no rises to tiny black
brine-fly activity - a few Caddis here and there
May 10 2003 - 65
degrees - 12:30 PM
Eastern Water snakes
(harmless), feeding on minnows
May 9 2003
Hendricksons continue over
on the Farmington
Ken Corey hooks up to a nice
fish
May 6 2003 - 61
degrees - 4:30 PM
lots of hungry risers
chasing down duns, spinners and the tiny stuff (diptera & a few
olives)
May 5 2003 - 50
degrees - 9:30 AM
quiet morning - no spinner
fall - few bugs - fewer splashy rises<
some color on the river
bank
May 4 2003 - 62
degrees - 5:30 PM
May 3 2003 - 55
degrees -
waiting for a spinner fall -
Sat PM
something to think about
while wading? (shell 19")
