Saturday, June 15 was clear and blessedly cool, ahead of what the weather ninnies assured me is a massive unprecedented disastrous heat wave.
I know this because I am a highly trained observer, and because I found a United States Geological Survey map that says so. I am happy to report that getting the map from the USGS website was simple. Go to usgs. But I always came at it moving upstream, off Route 8. This time, coming downstream on Sandy Brook Road another triumph of clarity in labeling I saw the stream and a couple of pull-offs with DEEP signs regarding creel limits and so on.
Water temperature at 8 a. Not ideal, perhaps, but not terrible either. I noticed the stream running roughly north-south, was almost completely shaded over at that hour, with the sun just starting to get through the canopy from the east.
This is good. Streams that have an east-west flow get the full brunt of the sun during the course of the day. In the summer, this means warmer water. The first thing I noticed was this bucolic, babbling brook is misnamed. Some actual sand would have been nice.
Mike Barker provided a couple of well-crafted crawfish imitations. Patrick L. I deployed an eight-foot nine-inch four weight rod. There was plenty of room for casting and the four weight allowed for turning over a dry-dropper rig while not making a huge splash.
