Eric L
06-06-2006, 12:24 PM
Hi all,
I'm new to this forum and thought I'd give a brief personal introduction.
I grew up in CT and caught my 1st trout on a fly in the reservation pool circa 1979. Bought my Thompson model A vise (still in use) and learned to tie flies at S+M flytying over in Bristol. Back then the river was beautiful, but the fishing was really pretty poor. By Memorial day most of the stocked fish had been extracted form the river leaving just a few holdovers, salmon parr and 7-9 inch yearling browns stocked through the summer in the West Branch. I used to fish the FAll BWO hatch below Collinsville by driving from pool to pool because there were rarely more than 2 or 3 fish rising in any one place.
When I was back from College I volunteered to coordinate running an angler survey for FRAA and DNR (summer 1987?) on what is now the C/R stretch of the Farmington. I've forgotten most of the names, but Dick, Carl and Gene (who owned a flyshop up the hill from the Church pool) were officers in the FRAA back then. Bill Hyatt had just joined CT DNR at the time and the fossils in power there were on public record stating that the Farmington was too nutrient-poor to support trout over 14 inches....
Anyway, my career as a research biologist/biochemist has taken me away from CT, but I still get back to fish from time to time. I'll be up there next week and am looking forward to a great week of fishing -- even if the catching is'nt so good.
Regards,
Eric
I'm new to this forum and thought I'd give a brief personal introduction.
I grew up in CT and caught my 1st trout on a fly in the reservation pool circa 1979. Bought my Thompson model A vise (still in use) and learned to tie flies at S+M flytying over in Bristol. Back then the river was beautiful, but the fishing was really pretty poor. By Memorial day most of the stocked fish had been extracted form the river leaving just a few holdovers, salmon parr and 7-9 inch yearling browns stocked through the summer in the West Branch. I used to fish the FAll BWO hatch below Collinsville by driving from pool to pool because there were rarely more than 2 or 3 fish rising in any one place.
When I was back from College I volunteered to coordinate running an angler survey for FRAA and DNR (summer 1987?) on what is now the C/R stretch of the Farmington. I've forgotten most of the names, but Dick, Carl and Gene (who owned a flyshop up the hill from the Church pool) were officers in the FRAA back then. Bill Hyatt had just joined CT DNR at the time and the fossils in power there were on public record stating that the Farmington was too nutrient-poor to support trout over 14 inches....
Anyway, my career as a research biologist/biochemist has taken me away from CT, but I still get back to fish from time to time. I'll be up there next week and am looking forward to a great week of fishing -- even if the catching is'nt so good.
Regards,
Eric