Drop back fishermen will have their hands full with them-hope it doesn't affect their numbers through mishandling.
On the flipside perhaps it isn't the high waters, just an increase in their numbers- HOPE HOPE-if they only  would come in like this as adults.

I agree with dime...atlantic smolts.  I thought they were stocked and are working there way down to the big water?  I had a similar fishing experience last year around this same time.  Jumping all over the place and very aggressive.

Might well agree with the stocked theory. In Ct this is the time of year they get put into the tribs.

I wondered about recent stocking too,  would be a long way to make it up in a heavy flow.  Most were palm size, but a few were 6 plus inches.

Hey Yukbug is that a white Boxer in your avater? I have a white Boxer and she loves to roll like that,I get a kick watching her enjoy it!
Those look like Atlantics to me Clint and were probably stocked recently.One way to determine that would be to contact Vern at the hatchery.

They don't have the lists up for last year, but in 2012, NYSDEC  put 30,000 6.5 inch landlocks and 13,800 2.5 inch landlocks in Beaverdam Brook.  These would be coming from the Adirondack Hatchery in Saranac Lake, unless USGS is raising the SR fish at Tunison.  They may have put them in lately because the water was high, and they thought they would head right downstream.  Be gentle with them, they are the potential future of summer fishing on the SR.
 
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Time to be a dry fly hero!

Clint thanks for the reports, pics and glad to see some stream side fishing.
I now feel like db as I listen to the croz. Long time gone.
Do miss the late winter /spring steel. It seems through your / 2 bob reports and my only trip that the fishery is healthy.
I can't wait to try the lake.

So far your coming up aces and I'm spades.

The little ones are landlocks that were stocked (~17,000 ~7" fish) by the USGS Biological Research Division Tunison lab in Cortland.  AGin, please be gentle with them.
 
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They were all over mid river tonight