This morning I fished a short section of the Rusagonis Stream. There's a good place to park directly beside the covered bridge pictured above in Rusagonis on Route 655. (See more great photos by Greg McCracken at http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=397196) When I arrived around 8:15 it was very grey and it started to rain shortly after that. The location has a variety of water depths and conditions; if you wade down below the bridge there are lots of exposed rocks, calm pools, and vegetation along the edges of the stream (see picture). If you hike above the bridge, there is a junction where the South Branch Rusagonis meets the main Rusagonis Stream, and creates a nice little area of shallow rapids. There are more calm, deeper pools in that area, too.
Under the bridge looking downstream.
All in all, it was a very successful morning. I caught 4 trout in an hour and a half. Unfortunately none were big enough to keep. All four were caught on this minnow hardbait, which I have discovered works very well in overcast or rainy conditions. It has two treble hooks (which I have de-barbed) and is mainly dark blue with some brown in there too. There is a bright silver area near the head, and it 'swims' like a fish as it's reeled in. I was able to catch my biggest trout ever on this yesterday, and it was overcast then, too.
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