Fly Fishing for Trout on Connecticut's FINEST Tailwater (Part I)
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2020
- In this episode, I venture up into Connecticut's Litchfield Hills in early June to fish the state's most popular tailwater trout fishery. Certainly considered some of Connecticut's bigger water, the most popular quarry on the West Branch Farmington River tends to be brown trout, which thrive in it's unnaturally cool waters. And hey, you might even catch me making a quick stop at a tributary along the way to do some small stream fly fishing.
In other news, we did! We hit 1,000 subs, folks... and I say "we" because I couldn't have done it without all of you! Thanks so much for watching, subscribing, commenting, sharing.
➤ Location(s)
Morgan Brook, Litchfield County, Connecticut
West Branch Farmington River, Litchfield County, Connecticut
➤ Gear Used
9' 5wt fly rod w/floating line
elk hair caddis, hare's ear
➤ Online
Connecticut Angler website: www.connecticutangler.com
Facebook: / theconnangler
Instagram: / theconnecticutangler
➤ Music Credits
The Call by Scott Buckley | / scottbuckley
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
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Small stream fishing looks awesome Im definitely gonna try it out.
Great video, you inspired me to start fly fishing I'm enjoying the new challenges that come with it.
Love all of your videos. I have seen all of them. Keep up the great work!!
Another great video! Have you ever fly fished the Housatonic river for pike? That would be a great video!
I’ve never fly fished for pike before, though it’s certainly something I’d like to get into. It was one of many new endeavors I’d been hoping to try out in 2020, but circumstances have made it tough to find the time branch out, unfortunately.
Connecticut Angler hey totally understandable. I hope you’re able to get out there at some point and nail a gator!
Love the vid
Sorry about your camera! If it doesn't recover, I highly recommend the 8. Ended up getting it after talking with you and am pretty pleased with it.
I’ve no doubt those 8s are nice... have fun! Maybe one of these days I’ll upgrade. In the meantime, I did manage to dry it out thankfully. Fired up just fine after about 24 hours, much to my surprise!
congrats on 1000 subs hope it hits 100000. Have you tried cdc feathers for dries? really easy to tie small flies. those holdover trout are picky as you know
I haven’t yet, though it just comes down to finally getting my hands on the material. I’ve been tying all my own streamers and nymphs for a while now, but only recently committed to starting to tie as many of my dries as possible. Thing is, when you get in the realm of tying dries, there’s a whole series of additional materials you need which I’ve been amassing bit by bit. Some CDC is definitely on the shopping list.
Went to the Salmon River in Marlborough over the weekend and the water level was really low. Didn’t have much luck. I’m a new fresh water angler, does the water level play a part in catching trout? I even tried the deeper pools with no luck
Water level does play a role just about any time of year, though the reasons may differ somewhat from season to season. In the case of summertime on Salmon River, water that’s lower and slower means it’s growing ever hotter and has less dissolved oxygen. These are two circumstances that stocked trout have difficulty tolerating. Many of the trout left over from the February and springtime stockings won’t make it past September; they’ll just die off at some point between now and then. But that’s only part of it. There’s also the fact that the volume of stockers has simply diminished dramatically since spring and the relatively few fish that can hack it in suboptimal conditions are much tougher to catch. They’ve been educated over months of intense fishing pressure. They’ve seen the full gamut of artificial offerings come past their nose and they may already have been caught once or twice. They’re cautious now. All of this means that success on the Salmon right now isn’t a “how many fish per hour” game, but more of a “how many hours per fish” sort of thing. For my own part, I don’t know that it’s worth the investment of time out on the Salmon right now. I would focus either on coldwater trout streams (Farmington River or cold WTMAs) or switch species for the time being. The river smallmouth bite is blazing right now.
Connecticut Angler thanks for the info I truly appreciate it. I do mostly saltwater fishing but had a lot of fun early in the season catching trout this year. I’m learning as I go so I might be asking more questions in the future if you don’t mind.
Agreed, I have fished the Salmon a few times recently with no bites from trout, but every time I have gone to wild trout streams I have gotten good action (Salmon Brook in Glastonbury and Mine Brook in Cobalt to be exact.) In colder months the fishing on the Salmon can be incredible, but when summer hits the fishing just shuts down. But also I have a quick question, what would you recommend me using on the Tankerhoosen or Salmon Brook West Branch with a fly rod (since I plan to fish either one soon and never fished them.)
Like 35 from me 🤟🎣🤟
What parking lot are you accessing it from? Peoples Forest?
What size Hares ear are you using?
Are those stocked fish??
Nice video, beautiful spot. Did you catch all those trout at the Farmington on a dry dropper?
Yeah, all but one of those trout hit the hare’s ear dropper. The one brown towards the very end was caught on the elk hair caddis.
@@ConnecticutAngler So your telling me I don't need to spend 800+ dollars on a euro nymphing rod with competition-grade leader and line to catch fish on the Farmington? Wack
DragonBob 😂😂😂
I fish the Farmington a lot not familiar with this pool , what town u in there
This is up in Barkhamsted