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Farmington River Report

Local Conditions

West Branch Farmington River
Riverton, CT

Still River
Robertsville, CT

Thursday 9/17/26 Farmington River Report: Cooler Air, Cold Water, and Quality Fish.

Pictured is yours truly (Torrey), the guy that writes these reports, with a colored up 19" wild brown I landed Tuesday evening on a #22 nymph. Minutes later I landed one only slightly smaller on a #14 nymph. There was a bite window for better fish from about 6:30pm to 7pm. Derrick was fishing downstream [...]

Thursday 9/3/26 Farmington River Report: Flying Ants Iso's & Olives, Labor Day Hours

Pictured is a great Farmington River brown trout by fly tyer extraordinaire Nathan Mumford, caught on an Isonychia (Iso) spinner. Don't sleep on spinner patterns! Big trout love them. Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-6pm. Saturday & Sunday 8am-5pm. Labor Day store hours: 8am-3pm. News: The entire upper 21 miles from the dam in Riverton down to the Rt. 177 bridge [...]

Monday 8/24/26 Farmington River Report: Afternoon Flow Update

New Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-6pm. Saturday & Sunday 8am-5pm. This will be our schedule through the end of the summer. News:Longtime UpCountry employee Don Butler passed away this summer, and Grady wrote a nice tribute piece on our blog. Click here for a link to this post. Pictured up top is a beautiful Farmington River brown caught [...]

Thursday 8/20/26 Farmington River Report: Steve Culton's Farmington Book Signing Saturday.

New Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-6pm. Saturday & Sunday 8am-5pm. This will be our schedule through the end of the summer. News: Pictured up top is once again Jim DeCesare holding a beautiful Farmington River brown trout he fooled this week in the evening on a dry fly. For more fish photos, store announcements and river news visit our [...]

Monday 8/10726 Farmington River Report: Modest Flow Cut this Morning, Geat Water Temps

New Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-6pm. Saturday & Sunday 8am-5pm. This will be our schedule through the end of the summer. News: Pictured up top is a big brown trout tail that belongs to a hefty trout, caught by customer Brent M. With a motor like that, you know it gave him a good fight! For more fish photos, [...]

Thursday 8/13/26 Farmington River Report: In great shape for the weekend

New Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-6pm. Weekends 8am-5pm. News: Pictured up top is customer Alexis with a quality brown from yesterday on a nymph. This week we are taking an extra 10% off our USED, SALE and CLEARANCE Fly Reels. We have an entire cabinet of used and sale reels due to some collections we have purchased, along with lots [...]