Last fishing adventure with Bill

Yesterday was our last fishing adventure of the season with Bill. :-( But it was a lot of fun. We started off at the Judges and Jury pools for a couple of hours. I had good luck and caught a beautiful 14" male brook trout -- not the one pictured here but similar in color. Alan had a good stretch as well although when he reeled up, he discovered that his hook had snapped in half. No wonder he missed all those fish!

After a couple of hours, we headed north to try to hit the Meadows again but there was a car in the pullout, so we went up to the dam below second Connecticut which we had never been to before. It doesn't seem like it gets fished much -- certainly not as much as the dam below first Connecticut -- and we both pulled out a good number of fish, brookies and salmon, ranging from 6-12". Lots of fun. Oddly enough, given the time of year, there was a hatch on of these enormous stone flies -- they looked like B-52 bombers buzzing on down the river.

At the end of the day, we were all a little sad to realize the season was over. Seems like it just started.