Well yesterday was a great day.  Fish Carva, Ktbone, Zig and I got together for some grilling and a day on the Sugar River.

We met at about noon at Zig's place in Henniker, and grilled up some dogs, Italian sausages and venison.   We shot the bull for a bit and hit the road about 1pm headed for Newbury, NH's section of the Sugar along the old abandoned rail road bed. 

The water looked beautiful when we arrived and Ktbone immediately identified a trout laying in a pool below the first old rail bridge.  We headed down the trail past the second bridge and found a nice bend in the river to start at with easily discernable pools. 

Fish Carva, and Ktbone went a bit further down stream and fished while Zig and I attempted to work the bend.  After throwing wet flies, streamers, wooly buggers, stone fly nymphs and several other nymph varieties I only managed to hook the bottom a  few times.  But with in the first couple of minutes I heard some hooting upstream where I turned to find and see that Ktbone had hooked up as I watched him land that trout.  I thought great at least we landed a fish.  Sadly that was the only one of the day.

Zig and I moved up stream to some other lies that looked promising, but everyone seemed to notice despite some sporatic hatches going on through out the day there was no rising going on.  The trout seemed to be laying deep and wouldn't seem to rise to any offering including the real thing.

Ktbone was the fisherman of the day as it wrapped up around dark.  No fish, but there was plenty of reasons to stand or sit by the water and enjoy it.  The weather was great and the scenery was fantastic!  I had a great time and it was really nice to hang with the guys and wet some lines.

Good times fellas and I look forward to some more.  I hope to take you up on the striper fishing Fish Carva.  That is something I have always wanted to do, and have not had the opportunity to as of yet. 

Thanks t-bone for kicking this off , life is always getting better , dog was great yesterday, this morning  had bad moment thought for sure it was the end , pretty upsetting , needless to say just got back home with her she is in ruff shape and in need of  further evaluation , but getting real old for a golden the vet was actually shocked she was as old as she was, Shes always has been a fighter , love her for that . hoping she can stick around a bit longer, as long as she is not suffering .

Ok, back to yesterday,  yesterday was a great time , fish or no fish it was a blast, we worked hard and came up empty for the most part ,(it happens twice this week alone  )   i had a tug or two and paul with brief hook up, kieth with his fish to start the morn , and you and i throwing every fly known to man to entice a bite was enjoyable just to be around the company i had to enjoy the day, a beautiful one at that,  friendships i feel that have been starting to form, all great guys . i have pics and will be throwning a couple up in a while, gotta get near the water , taking my daughter up to fish , and relax for the afternoon , moving water soothes my soul and i am in great need of that at this moment in time

Paul glad you stuck around prob almost was a 1 am night , food was great and we shared some great stories hunting, fishing and life in general thank you for that . If others have not seen the fish carvings paul does its beautiful work and you should check them out , i will some day soon own one from you. Until later

I do not believe there was a group shot taken.  Brandon has most of the pics to, so you'll have to wait and see them.

I had a fantastic time and hope we can give it go once again in the future. I think Keith and I are due for a date at the vice as well.  He has plenty to show me from what I saw while observing his fly box.  His ties are nice and clean.  The looked fantastic!

But I would also enjoy some more time on the river. 

Ok kinda no group picture i have a picture of the group minus me all fishing around one stretch , really never thought to do it saw plenty of people walking by , but we were enjoying stories of old and new lots of chuckles and smiles all day and thats what it is all about i got a few pics to share i rarley piced cam up for some reason was just enjoying the day .

Her is ktbone,theron,and tiny little bit of paul LMAO after little cropping ha ha !!

couple of the fisherman we saw....

and the sunset on the day a great one at that

Keith

I edited your post and fixed up the pictures so they fit and don't go to wide for the site.  Next time use the Icon in the editor to insert the pictures.  Go here and to the section "External URL" to see how to do it.  It real easy and makes the forum post easier to read.  I recommend picture width of 600 pixels or less.

See Yah

Lee