According to the stocking website, the quinnie did not get fish this week, which is poor timing related to the hatches. Usually it takes the stockies a week or two to acclimate themselves to the food source of the new stream they've inhabited, and with the Hendrickson hatch starting to come on strong, it might mean only a small window of the dry fly fishing for this hatch (assuming we get fish next week!). Fortunately, there will be no shortage of stones and caddis, as always, but I haven't seen a good Hendrickson hatch on this river lately and was somewhat looking forward to it this year.
What I did notice was that the Millers was stocked in basically every town it flows. In checking the flows on the USGS site, it looks like only the Athol/Royalston areas are fishable right now at 400 CFS. I am going to head out there saturday and I will probaly head to the Pete and Henry's pool to start and make my way into the bearsden. I may end the day at the Wendell depot area if it comes down from its current 700 CFS by then.
The plan is to head to the quinnie tomorrow after work (after a stop at The Lower Forty to stock up) and hopefully the worm Dunkers and spinner throwers have had it with this river by now and we'll have it all to ourselves. Nothing like a cigar and the fly rod to take you into the weekend.
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