RIVER PHOTOS
HOUSATONIC RODS
RIVER PHOTOS
the river by month:
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1:2.8-4.2/5.2-52 ASPH.2008 sEPtEMBERSept. 19, 7:50 AM - 45 degrees
Way up an eventual Housy trib - if you recognize this stretch, you know CT's northwest corner's trout water very well
Sept. 14, 6:30 PM - 78 degrees
Fish rising to Isonychias and Cahills
- this handsome Brown met my net two nights in a row
Sept. 13, 7 PM
Cahill spinner, Flying Ants, Isonychia & Olives mix in a trout buffet that gets the big fish up and rising
Cahill Spinner sz 12
AugustAug. 29, 8PM
Harry takes a fine fish his last night on the Housy for a while
August 27 - 8:45PM - 64 degrees
I'll miss this view when the season ends!
Jerry Jons throws his 2-hander to the opposite bank
Things that rustle in the dark - up on the railroad tracks
Aug. 22, 6:30 PM - Meadows
Our local Tree frogs (Hyla versicolor), 'chameleons' of the Connecticut woods, change color
listen
Aug. 21, 7 PM - Great fishing these past few evenings - active bugs and good water temps
Isonychias come in smaller sizes (newly emerged male, a small 12)
large Isonychia (fem. sz 10) & spinner, right
When rocks move, keep this guy in mind:
Aug. 18, 6 PM - nice flows, Isonychias, Olives & good temps
Aug. 17 some of my favorite small water
Aug. 16, 8 PM Jeff Grossman fights and lands a BIG kyped Brown on the Farmington
From White Flies to Black Caddis
Aug. 10, 2 PM
Healthy Rainbow far up a large Housy trib.
Aug. 7, Ambitious little Brown manages to fair-hook himself on a sz14 Humpy!
Keith works his way up the Blackberry
Aug. 4, 8-9 PM
White Flies!
Just a moderate hatch, you can hear the White Flies whirring by in the dark
- Harry Wallace stands in the Blizzard:
Aug. 3 - 9PM
White Flies begin
JULY
there's nothing like a humid Summer sunset
Healthy Watershed - Happy Amphibians:
(tree frog)
Trout in the thermal refuge -
July 19,
mating Stoneflies (W. Br. Ausable R.)
July 19, brief change of scenery - (W. Br.) Ausable R.
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Same Buck from last year, in velvet, forages along the river bank
Two Gobblers dance it out in a glade - spot the Hen in the woods?
Summer Stenonema - staple of evening hatches
JUNE
A sparsely-spotted Brown
MAY
APRIL
FEBRUARY
February 17, 11AM - 42 degrees
melting ice pours morning fog into the valley'Rolf's Run':
February 9, 9:45AM - 32 degrees
We've had a melt - and for just a brief while the valley has no snow
Then it starts again:
A case against strike indicators -
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