Fall fishing is right around the corner, so of course, everyone is continuing to make plans for September and watching water levels closely. If you are a river angler, the higher the flow, and the earlier it runs, the better the fall fishing.

If you live in New York, Massachusetts, Central and Southern Vermont and New Hampshire, and south coastal Maine, you have plenty of river flow and perhaps, even too much. But the Western Maine mountains continue to be in a prolonged drought (for the entire summer), see map below representing conditions through August 14th. We need rain! But with several tropical systems moving through this week, we might just get it!

Speaking of fall fishing, My latest book, In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout, the Ultimate Handbook of Tactics, Timing, and Territory, is an excellent resource of where and how to fish at this time of year. You can purchase signed off this website for $ 26.00 and I also have a few “seconds” with slightly marked covers that I am selling for $ $ 14. Email me at louzambello@gmail.com and I will send you a photo of the cover and you can then purchase.

I actually haven’t been doing much fishing recently (from my perspective) and have been enjoying having time with four family generations. I have a few items to report on:

I do enjoy teaching new anglers the whys and wherefores of the sport. Here is a young lady enjoying the summertime bass fishing.

A week ago, my mother, sister and I celebrated 50 years on Damariscotta Lake at our family camp on the southern part of the lake. It was great fun reminiscing. Damariscotta is where I developed my love for fishing and my interest in smallmouth bass fishing with a fly rod. Of course, I found my way out to the water and caught a number of smallmouth and largemouth by fishing a popper around structure such as docks and logs. The fish were in a feeding mode because schools of young-of-the-year alewives were cruising the drop-offs and the bass were on them.

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Fortunately, I fished late Saturday and early Sunday and was off the water before a local bass tournament began. My quiet morning on the lake, with grassy-calm conditions and the occasional bass breaking the surface; and the cries of both a loon and a bald eagle were disrupted by half a dozen glittery bass boats roaring past me at 60 miles an hour driven by their 250 horsepower engines (I was in a kayak). Geez, the boat, engine and gear manufacturers have certainly done a great job convincing bass fisherman that they can’t possible catch good numbers of bass without $50,000 dollars of gear.

I think I caught as many bass as most of them in half the time, but again, I have decades of experience on this lake. Interestingly, when I started fishing here, it was a smallmouth lake only, largemouth were introduced later.

Striper fishing has continued to be good on the coast of Maine all summer but, of course, exactly where, when, how many, and what size varies from day to day. If you find yourself along the coast for work, pleasure, or some other reason, it always pays to have a fly rod in the car, just in case. My number one fishing rule is” Always have a fly rod with you!

Case in point, my daughter’s boyfriend, Will was driving over the bridge from Cousin’s Island after a meeting with a customer and noticed a commotion next to the bridge. He turned around, stopped, grabbed his fly rod, hit the beach, and caught a few very nice stripers including this one below.

I will post again soon, in the meantime, I am looking over my flies and seeing what I need to restock before September.