Odds... And a Few Ends

The other night I got out for a couple of hours. The water was very low and there was next to nothing as far as bug life goes so I resorted to twitching small nymphs through deeper pockets. That brought a few rainbows to hand. None came out of the water and only one was photographed, it is just two warm to mess around with these fish right now. 

#keepumwet

 As night fell the frogs and toads came out. This is Lithobates palustris, commonly called the pickerel from. I suspect the naming of this frog is related to the similarity of its color pattern to Esox niger, the chain pickerel.

I was out carp and smallmouth fishing this morning and evening, and will probably go tomorrow morning too so you can expect a post on that tomorrow. I'm also going smallmouth fishing with Adam on the Connecticut River. He got two decent fish yesterday, two pounders, so hopefully it won't be a bust. In the meantime, here's a really bad fly tying video I made today. If you try to follow my instructions click on the title, the description on the youtube page has some very important information that I neglected to mention while shooting.