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Passinthru Outdoors · Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 142

Spent Sunday on the water with my brother and his son at a fishing derby at a local pond and then off to the salmon river TMA. I spent the entire time on the river Euro Nymphing with a caddis nymph and soft hackle BH pheasant tail and the PT was the ticket for sure. I caught browns, rainbows and some brookies during the outing. My nephew was catching fish on a salmon colored trout magnet and mealworms.

Lots and lots of bugs around and finally saw some hendrickson's come off and when they did the fishing picked right up.

You can read the entire post on my blog: http://passinthruoutdoors.blogspot.com/2011/05/great-way-to-spend-first-day-of-may.html[/img]
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RobO · Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 285 Location: South Windsor

I saw a bug get eaten after it landed on the water the other day. Steve told me it was a Henrickson. Damn.. I am already learning already by watching what bugs are being eaten by the trout.

Great report and glad you and the family had a good time.
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DirtyDawg10 · Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 2238 Location: Granby, CT

Nice report!

steve b · Joined: 13 Dec 2010 Posts: 26 Location: union, CT

Jim,
was that a brookie or a tiger? happy little man
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Pikerman6 · Joined: 31 Mar 2011 Posts: 17

Nice job. You gotta get the kid some waders.

Passinthru Outdoors · Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 142

@RobO - since picking up fly fishing I spend more time watching bugs, turning over rocks than actually fishing some days. Way more than I did when I was kid playing in the water. Too funny.

@steveB - it was a brookie. We caught about 5 out of this one little run. All of them had shoulders and put up a good fight.

#pikerman6 - yes he needs waders. Time to stop and buy a couple of pair for the kids. It's cheaper for them to stand on the rocks, but soo much more fun once they get in the water.
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Jschin26 · Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 3

Nice fish. I fished the Salmon River today. I just moved up from MD, and was pleased theres such a nice fishery and protected state land close to where I'm living. I landed a nice brookie and caught my first parr (they're fiesty little buggers). They were caught on black body EH caddis and tan body. Didn't see any signs of a hatch, but action did pickup after a quick rain shower.

@ Passinthru What are some other good fly fishing streams/rivers in eastern CT? I'm living in Groton right now. I'm aware of the Housy and Farmington, but I'm looking for a place within hours distance I can drive to after work and fish a couple hours.

@ Pssinthru Also you got any recommedations on waht to use on the Salmon, prior to using dry flys, I was using a tandem rig much like the one you described on your blog, but had no luck...