Fly fishing the Westfield River in Chesterfield, MA
After working a few spots, I settled in to a shallower stretch of river alongside a deep trough running alongside a boulder. A few casts with a weighted black woolly bugger, and I hooked one. I made a long cast upstream, let it sink alongside the boulder, stripped the line in a bit, and the trout grabbed it as it swung out of the current. Never doubt a swinging fly, and sometimes trout will grab it as you retrieve it upstream.
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Myself and a surprised rainbow friend. |
I had a few near misses, and decided to call it a day early. At one point, I tied on an excessively large weighted sculpin fly I had with me. Just for fun, I tossed it across river and stripped it horizontally through a couple of troughs between rocks. To my surprise, a very large trout came out of hiding and chased it to the surface. Unfortunately, I think it was scared away by the sunlight. Maybe next time…