Sunday, March 15, 2015

Spring's Best Parts

As the weather here continues to gradually get warmer and wetter and the air starts to get those hints of spring, and best yet some redness and fullness is showing on the trees, I am getting ready for some hatch matching and wild trout catching. My favorite two hatches are the Blue Quills and Hendricksons, both of which, believe it or not, are rapidly approaching. In fact on the warmer years I have caught the Blue Quills right around the end of March.






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  1. AnonymousMarch 15, 2015 at 1:18 PM

    You will be a wonderful custodian of Nature's Nursery.
    - G.

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  2. RI brook troutMarch 15, 2015 at 7:21 PM

    Awesome pictures and I especially like the second brookie. He is gorgeous and quite large! Please excuse my ignorance, but do these hatches still occur on small streams because I know some hatches require at least a mid sized river.

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    1. RM LytleMarch 15, 2015 at 7:50 PM

      Thank you,
      It depends on the water quality, type of bottom, and temperature. Blue Quills and Hendricksons absolutely POUR out of some of the small streams in the area. Yet others lack these and have solid populations of cream colored flies (sulfurs or cahills), or maybe small red quills. It is a very variable thing.

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  3. CliffMarch 16, 2015 at 1:30 PM

    YES, I'm happy to see you happy. It doesn't take much warmth to bring nature to life. Thanks for the great info and pics.
    Tie, fish, write and photo on...

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    1. RM LytleMarch 16, 2015 at 6:01 PM

      The great thing about it is that life is always there in monumental quantities, but in the winter it takes more to observe.

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  4. HibernationMarch 16, 2015 at 5:31 PM

    Awesome pic's RML. Any spring is good, but this one feels like it's particularly special - we have earned it big time here in the north east eh? :)
    Will

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  5. Bill TrussellMarch 16, 2015 at 7:47 PM

    RM
    Absolute perfect stream to land trout from, what weight/length fly rod were you using? Really impressed with photography---thanks for sharing

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    1. RM LytleMarch 16, 2015 at 8:38 PM

      Thank you,
      I should have specified, these are from three different streams last spring. The last is actually a Farmington River Hendrickson. They are all perfect! That rod you see in the background is an old 7ft 4weight Shakespeare wonderod, a very fine length of fiberglass. I love it so much.

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