Worked about 3/4 of the day on Monday the 5th. Couldn't take the heat anymore so I hit up a Connecticut Class 1 Wild Trout Stream about 4pm.
Air temp in the 90's, stream temp 59. Wading was, well, can you say "REFRESHING"! Ahhh..... so nice...... :)
Started off fishing a #18 black ant and then a #18 peacock mountain caddis with 7x on my Hardy Glass 6 ft. 3 wt. through these fishy looking spots-




Guess the heat was throwing me off my game as I was snagging trees, losing flies, getting my tippet caught in my vest zippers, birds nests, you name it I did it. :evil:
Missed a few risers- :cry:


With nothing to show for my poor efforts I headed downstream about 6:30 to fish another section of river with some deeper pools.
Decided to upgrade to 6x and a #16 Murray's Professor-


Came to the top of an hour glass shaped deep pool around 7pm where the bottom section of the hour glass is about 4 times as long as the upper section. The neck separating the two sections about 4 feet wide.
Let the Professor drift through the upper section.........
The rest is a blur-
WHACK........ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's no 8" brookie...Holy ****
He put himself on the reel, what the???????
BIG FISH ON!
Don't let him get through the chute, have to stop.......
Come on my little "pea shooter" Hardy Glass 6ft 3wt you can turn him.
You can turn him...
He's gonna snap the tippet.
Come on don't go through there...
Phew!
Oh crap, ZZZZZZZ there he goes again....
Get back here.
Easy big fella, you done yet?
Guess not...
Look at the size of him!
Holy Cow!
Don't look at the bend in the rod, YIKES......
Come on, don't lose him.
Easy does it, easy does it.
Screw the brookie net, too big...
OK, wet your hands.
Snap the pic.
Needle nose, hook out...
Revive.
See you again my friend.
:)
My personal best for a CT Class 1 Wild Trout Stream.
17" of Wild Bottle Rocket Brown!


Some perspective, here is an 8 incher, normal size fish for this stream-