How do you like the weather now

The dog wants to know where the Hades spring went to. An ugly weather system has descended on the northeast and is going to put an end to the spring fantasy that we had been enjoying. Like I said, you had better be ready for anything up here. As you can see from the pictures the big rivers have reached an ugly level, cooled and are pretty much unfishable. But all is not lost because in our area every stream contains wild trout and these wild fish will move up and down the feeder streams with rising and falling water conditions. These wild fish are very different than their stocked cousins which tend to remain in the holding pools and not migrate around all that much. As a wee lad I grew up on my grandmothers farm in Ireland and there was a small stream that went right next to our farm house. There were no fish in it till we got a good gully washer and then the stream was full of small trout that had run almost a 1/4 mile from the main river following their instinct to spread there species. As soon as the stream dropped the trout disappeared, the same genetics are in our trout up here. Up here some amazing trout can be caught in remarkably small flows and when conditions are like they are now that is where you go. A perfect example is the 21 inch brown that my guide David Versendy caught a week ago and the pic is in a post from last week. Considering the size of the stream it was a fish of a life time for that flow. With the weather report for this upcoming week it might be a good week to do something with your significant other and get some brownie points for later in the season. Fishing is going to be tough anywhere in the northeast. We needed the rain and when the warmth returns and water levels stabilize there is going to be an explosion of activity in the insect world due to the well advanced ground water temperatures we already have. I think May is going to be great!!!!! If you are coming up to the ADKs in that time frame I would have plenty of hares ears, prince nymphs and pheasant tails ready.