Holy High Water!!!!
 

My parents came down from Maine for a few days and was looking forward to fishing with Dad but this rain has been a bit of a downer for all the places I wanted to fish.  Instead of hitting up some bigger water we instead visited what used to be a small river just a few weeks ago.  How things change overnight!  The water is nearly at early spring runoff flow and right full of debris everywhere, thankfully some chunk bows decided to make an appearance so I aint gonna complain

Fly of choice today was a #10 green/black bugger with a cone head and wrapped with more weight down the length of the whole body to it get down deep fast.  Had other smaller nymphs tied on the back as well but all fish came on the big buggers.

Dad in the rain
 

I started things off early but lost him before he came to the net, all nasty, fat, and full of energy make for tough fun fight on a 3 weight.  Shorty after my father hooked into one as well but he didn't have a net and he lost it before it could be landed but was a nice fish.


After that I quickly hooked up and landed 3 fish in 20 minutes, all nice fish.

We stayed for about 3 hours and got into a few more fish, all bows, and the rain never really let up.  Never the less dad was excited to pick up a couple nice rainbows since they don't exist up in northern maine.  Heres to next time
 

 Thanks Lee, they were about 13-15 inches each.