Thursday morning I fished a lower stretch of the Lamprey near Newmarket, NH. A cool brisk morning with scattered clouds suggested excellent conditions for the newly stocked rainbows. Water flows were running ~130 CFS & 1.75 gauge height. When initially stocked, the rainbows prefer the slower moving water of pools as it takes them a couple days to acclimate to the faster flows in the head of pools. A green BH wooly bugger was the chosen fly as it was retrieved upstream or across the current. A total of 12 rainbows were landed in a 1.5 hr period, with hits almost every cast.
The annual fall stocking of the Isinglass River curtious of Waste Management (WM) stocked 500 browns and rainbows this past Saturday. The persistent downpours that day quickly rose water levels that I feel discouraged many fishermen. I arrived at the river at sunrise Sunday morning expecting more people would trickle in. Gray Ghost patterns found where the fish lay in a pool created from a large waterfall, but the strong current prevented solid hook-sets. Casting to the pool from a variety of angles and different techniques, trout finally started chasing large orange stimulators retrieved upstream just under the surface. Almost every cast resulted in a trout exploding over the fly. I took 3 quick rainbows until I switched to a muddler minnow. The sun poked through the clouds and the temperature rose.....The brown trout hammered that fly and just about every other streamer I could toss across current. They averaged 14-15 inches, with an occasional 16-17 usually lost at the net. Called it quits at 1100 with over 20 feisty fish landed and at least another 50 misses.
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