Thanks to John for the following report and picture.

Hey guys this is John Webber and I just wanted to say hi to all the guys in the shop that have helped me so much. I have moved with my family to Winsted, Connecticut and live about 10 min from the Farmington River. This was my first year on the Farmington and I wanted to send you guys some photos of what is going on up here in the North. I have had a lot of fun on the Farmington this year but I must confess I do very much miss the Little Gunpowder River and I hope that the fishing has continued to get better after the dam improvements. I also look forward to fishing it again asap and when I am in town I will make sure to stop and say hello.

When Backwater Anglers last knew me I was a construction worker who loved to fish so much I spent every waking hour trying to figure out how to fish as much as possible. I traded that all in to homeschool my two daughters and as a result have got to spend almost every waking moment on the water fishing or fishing with my daughters. I just want to say thanks to you guys for feeding that frenzy in my brain, it can be hard to find people who are so excited and passionate about fly fishing that they could talk it all day every day. Thank you for teaching so much about flyfishing and flytying, Theo I can remember a few times that you actually lent me flytying videos, well I can’t thank you enough. But I figured it was a good start to send you some photos of the Farmington River. I hope you enjoy them. I just saw the moving to the new store stuff on your website. I just wanted to say congratulations. The new store looks great and I cant wait to see it with my own eyes. I am glad you enjoyed those pictures, I have been enjoying the pictures on your website for years now. Recently I had a visitor from Jarretsville Md. he was here in the middle of September to visit and we got the opportunity to get out on the Farmington River for a couple of days. I was freaking out the day that he got here we had this massive cold front come through plummeting the temperatures to a bone chilling 40 degrees on the water at first light. Needless to say this did have adverse affects on the fishing, however we did manage to catch and release a few fish. We were catching them on #22-26 Bwo spinners.