JDW - I even tried the tricorythodes hatch on the Battenkill. Talk about so many flies on the water... It was an exercise in futility. In a whole weekend I caught two browns less than 9 inches. AND I tied my own imitation Tricos on #24 hooks. That's when I could see well enough to do that...

I used to seine the shallows too - even deeper water to waist deep. I learned a lot by doing that - especially that the nymphs were drifting at all levels of the water column.

When there was a rise somewhere in the vicinity of your fly you lifted your rod just in case. Hell, I still do that now at dusk in the spinner falls.

Last edited by DAM16SXS; 04/25/17 07:28 PM.