 While I guide on a lot of different small streams, the big rivers like the Winooski and Lamoille and their major tributaries are where I take a great deal of my clients. As can often be the case, sometimes the wife catches the bigger trout than the husband. This happy client had this 17" wild rainbow (her first trout caught fly fishing!) beat out her husband, who managed a 13" and a 14" wild rainbow during an afternoon of fishing a mayfly hatch on the lower Winooski River. |
 Crowded water?! On weekends you'll see some anglers, but I make sure my clients have large tracts of water to fish during an outing, and we rarely run into another angler while on the water. Pictured here is the most fished piece of wild trout water in the state during a late September weekday...my clients and I had a great Blue-Winged Olive hatch all to ourselves! |
 Big wild rainbow trout like this are one of the many things that separate fly fishing in Vermont from other northeastern waters. |
 A 17" wild brown trout caught on a dry on a small trout stream during the summer of 2007. |
 Trout love flying ants, and this fat 17" wild rainbow was no exception. After hooking two other rainbows this size, Paul's accurate casting paid off! |
 Vermont has some of the healthiest native brook trout populations you'll find in the East. During 2007 I guided on over 25 different small wild trout streams (less than 15 feet wide +-) around Vermont, and there aren't enough days to hit them all! |
 This happy client learned to fly fish with me during the 2007 season, and this 19" wild brown was his first trout caught on a fly rod! Talk about beginners luck! |
 I had to use the close-up of this 21" 3.5 pound wild brown trout to protect the "source" of this fish,(Sorry Mike!). Caught on a nymph during a classic cool drizzly day. |
 This 17" wild rainbow trout was one of the many 14-17" wild rainbows caught during the 2007 season. |
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