Hi Everyone,
Mid-summer fly fishing morphs into a different pursuit, at least for me. Gone are the marathon sessions intercepting heavy hatches, or hitting arriving striper blitzes, or casting poppers for bass on their spawning beds or hooking good-size trout and salmon feeding in cool rivers and streams.
In mid-July the pace slows. Often, that means lake or pond fishing for only an hour or two around dusk, trying to find fish still looking up for Hex stragglers. Sometimes, I take a leisurely kayak trip through coastal waterways several hours before or after high tide and cast for schoolies. Or I hike into the mountains and move leisurely up the headwaters, casting a three-weight and a small Royal Wulff, and hooking small native brookies. On hot evenings or foggy and muggy mornings, I might hop on my float tube and try to tempt big bass hanging tight under the lily pads.
It is really about enjoying the Maine summer, relaxing, relishing the disappearance of some of the worst of the biting insects, and catching a few fish along the way.
The Hex hatch has a long tail (lasts a long time) in cold lakes, with a few continuing to hatch every day for a month. It is generally an evening event, and if you leisurely float a big dry, every so often a good fish will happen by and smack it.
To find cooler waters in summer’s heat I explore upstrearm.
Small stream brookies are hand-sized but fun to catch on light rods.
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A good trout for a small mountain stream puts a bend in my cane rod.
When you see a spot like this on a tiny stream, you just know the biggest fish in that section will be right under that overhanging tree.
A nice brookie for a small stream in the middle of summer.
During July, during a rising or falling tide, I like to explore Scarborough Marsh in my kayak and find stripers willing to clobber a topwater popper or a Clouser.
Typical marsh striper. Even this size will tow your kayak.
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