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Anxiously awaiting open-water season

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Well, I am sure that everyone is waiting for the cold weather to end so we can start to see some open water. This is the time when we all daydream about fishing and plan future trips so I have some recommendations for you…

First of all, if you have never fished for the steelhead or large browns in Upstate New York that run into the tributaries of the Great Lakes than you have missed out on some real fun. Forget about the stories you have heard about crowded water and snagging. There is a guide service that does a tremendous job in New York. Go visit their website at www.reelactionfly.com. You will be amazed at their photos and videos. They also offer some great options at their camp in Alaska.

Here is a photo of me with a rather large brown trout I caught while they guided me. Trust me when I say that when one guide chooses another guide to assist , then the guide must be good.

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Finally, if you haven’t seen the following video, check it out at http://vimeo.com/85147880

I am not going to tell you anything about it except it is from New Zealand, just click on it – you will be glad that you did.

Finally, I will be giving my book presentation at the Maine Sportsman show on Friday and Sunday, the last weekend of March and at the NutMeg Chapter of TU (http://www.nutmegtrout.org) on March 18th in Connecticut.

Back from the book tour with ice-out prediction, new fly fishing classes

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I have lots of information to share in this blog. First of all, I am going to make my first ice-out prediction – ice-out will be late this year, possibly later than it has been for over ten years. I am guessing later than May 7. Last week someone sampled the ice on Little Kennebago Lake and found it over three feet thick.

With cold temperatures this winter and not a huge amount of snow to insulate the ice, the ice is really thick and will take longer to melt given normal spring conditions.

I am back from my travels to various fly fishing shows and trout unlimited meetings, giving presentations and signing books. It was a lot of fun connecting with many eager fly fishers, as well as fellow authors.


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I am adding a guiding calendar this year so people can see what days I have open for guiding. Look for it on my site. Right now I am open May 10,11,12,14,15,16,18,19, 21,22, 29, 30, 31 and June 1-4, 15-27. July is wide open at this point.

I would like to announce that this year, in addition to standard guiding days, I will be offering one-day fly fishing instructional classes based on strategies and tactics outlined in my book, “Fly-fishing the Seasons of Northern New England”. The day will consist of eight hours – two hours of streamer tactics, two hours of dry fly instruction, two hours of nymphing lessons, and two hours of specialized tactics (micropatterns and other approaches). While we will be trying to catch fish, the emphasize will be on instruction.

Location will be the Rangeley area (specifics depend on season and where people are staying). The class size will be 3-5 people and cost $125 per person. I will do a class of 2 but the cost will be $150 each. If you let me know your preferred dates, I will try to put appropriate sized classes together.

Book signing schedule released for January; nice review from Amazon reader

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Since my book has been released, I have been doing some traveling to various fly fishing venues to give presentations and sign books. I attended the Flyfishing Show in Marlborough Massachusetts. I will be doing a presentation at the Sebago Lake Chapter of Trout Unlimited Meeting on January 21. I will be presenting on January 24, 25, and 26 at the Flyfishing Show in Somerset New Jersey.

Books are available now at Amazon, the Rangeley Sports Shop, and directly from me. As I learn of other outlets, I will pass them on. I anticipate LL Bean soon. The book has received some nice reviews (even from readers not friends or relatives!) Here is one from Amazon…

Destined to become a New England flyfishing classic!!!
December 16, 2013
By andrew m. lamka – See all my reviews

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This review is from: Flyfishing Northern New England’s Seasons (Kindle Edition)

Destined to become required reading for anyone flyfishing Northern New England whether they are fishing the region for the first time or a veteran of fishing the region for many years. Unless one has the time to fish the area 100 days a year in every season for at least the next decade the information in this book will save you years of trial and error, frustration and fishless days! A book like this has been a long time coming’!

In the 1964 comedy film MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT the protagonist, George Willoughby, is a renowned angling expert who is harboring a secret… HE HAS NEVER FISHED!!! The author of this book is clearly NOT THAT GUY!!!Zambello is without doubt the real deal whose knowledge is the result of time on the water. I have flyfished the region covered on this book for over 50 years… particularly the Rangeley region..and the advice he offers is rock solid. I’ve learned more than a few new tricks and a bunch of new fly patterns from this book. Flyfishing the region has evolved exponentially
since the days of casting a GRAY GHOST, swinging a PARMACHENE BELLE, or floating a devil bug on a brook trout pond. The author covers Czech and European nymphing techniques, midge fishing, and fishing the sucker spawn (in the past a topic on which those in the know weren’t talking’). Great information on the best times to fish in terms of weather patterns and time
of day. I only wish I had a book like this 50 years ago!!!

Czech-ing in on N.Y. steelhead fishing; Lou’s new book released

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steelhead

This beautiful steelhead was caught in upstate New York using a Czech nymphing technique.

This November I did a bit of traveling and did not fish as much as I normally would in Maine. I did hit the Presumpscot River one morning and nymphed up a couple brown trout.

I then spent four days fishing for steelhead in upstate New York on the Canadaway River. The weather was cold but the fish were there and willing, off and on. Most of the fish were caught on a pink plastic bead (egg imitation) fished under a strike indicator. Others were caught Czech nymphing style on a two fly rig – the point fly was a pink foam egg and the dropper was a black soft-hackle leech imitation. The beautiful fish in the picture was hooked Czech nymphing and took the pink foam egg (with 5x tippet).

The Steelhead were quite active and I did a fair amount of following them downstream (and sometimes upstream) in order to land them. It helps to have a large net. Sometimes though I had no net and had to hand land them.
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My recent book “Flyfishing Northern New England’s Seasons” is now available on Amazon in digital form with the paperback available in a few weeks. This is a how-to book on how to optimally fish each season in northern New England. It is also available with my personal signature directly from me. E-mail me and I will send you all of the specifics. Other retailers will be selling it and I will let you know when I know.

I will be giving presentations based on the book throughout New England this winter as well. I will be at the Flyfishing Show in Marlborough, Mass. On January 17,18, and 10. Also at the Sebago Lake Chapter of Trout Unlimited on January 24th

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September fishing wraps up with warm temps, large fish in rivers

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Fall Salmon

Ben Sturtevant releases a nice Kennebago River Salmon during a mid-September outing.

In the Rangeley area, the rest of September remained dry and seasonally warm. While lots of rain fell all around Maine, it seemed to miss our area. One good rain fell in the middle of the month, and that along with a few nights of cold temperatures, did start the fish moving.The Kennebago and the Mags had large fish present throughout the river system by the middle of the month.

The size of the salmon this fall was very good with most fish 15 inches and above and very fat. It shows that there are plenty of smelt in the lakes for the salmon to feed on. With lower water flows and many fishermen, the fish wised up quickly  and while some lucky anglers enjoyed fast action, most worked diligently to land a few fish. The fish landed though were usually of good size. Fresh fish into the rivers were suckers for marabou streamers in white or grey. Later on as they wised up, nymphs, small soft hackles, and wood specials worked better. Hornbergs fished wet and large attractor dries such as Royal Wulff’s took their share of fish.

It was a windy month and many days the lakes were difficult to fish although the fish were in the shallows most of the month. The foliage started peaking the last few days of the month. How our climate is changing. 25 years ago when I fished the Rangeley area the last week of the month, most the leaves had fallen from the trees and it frequently spit snow or sleet. Today it is in the high 60’s.

Early October should bring good fishing in waters that are still open. Water temperatures and flows will be reasonable. The long term weather forecast looks benign

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August Action

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Perhaps as a make-up for the lousy weather, high water, and challenging fishing during much of May, June, and even July, the fishing in August was the best that I can remember. Rangeley rivers fished well with certain pools holding a concentration of salmon and trout. Many lake fish ascended the rivers during the flushes of water from the rain and then when the water warmed into the low 70’s, they holed up near incoming cooler tribs. Colder nights in early August returned the water temps into the mid to high sixties and the fish went on a feeding spree.
Kennebago Lake fished well because hatches were late and spread out and the water stayed cool enough for fish to stay in the shallows and feed instead of decending to the thermoclines. It was ironic that with most of the anglers gone, a few lucky anglers had a number of summer evenings where they could cast to rising fish without any other boat nearby.
The lower Magalloway below the dam continued to fish well with many smaller fish falling to nymphs and dries and the occasional monster caught with big streamers or nymphs.
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(Sorry for the delay in posting this – I thought it had posted several weeks ago)

Interesting Summer

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The erratic weather certainly continued in July and so did the erratic fishing. Many rivers remained blown out for much of the early part of the month and by the time the water came down, the continued warm nights raised the temperatures quickly. (Cool nights with low humidity are important to maintaining reasonable water temperatures). Most days were humid, hot, or rainy.
In early July, the Rangeley River had reasonable water levels and many fish in the 6-10 inch range took nymphs readily. The Mags below the dam had certain times with reasonable water flows and nymphing anglers caught some very nice fish. The temperature of the Kennebago River on July 19th was 76 degrees. Despite the high temps, I actually caught while nymphing a beautiful fresh 2-pound plus salmon in a pocket between fast water. It must have come up stream in the last pulse of water. I also caught a few smaller salmon right by the dam. While used at the suitable surface treatment levels, resurfacing action of Fraxel boost the cell proceeds and viagra shops causes extrusion of the melanin pigment is made to absorb sunlight and help protect our skin from the sun’s UV radiation. The inflamed bladder can accelerate the process generico viagra on line of stone formation. Sexual stimulation is certainly an important factor during copulation. levitra without prescription drugs thus help to remove the cause of erectile dysfunction in order to get full advantage of what mother nature has to offer us; as opposed to solely relying on our man-made pharmaceuticals. It is not uncommon that a man, stressed and worn out from work at the end of the day, you will have to have your erectile dysfunction sorted out; and whether that would mean a new approach in treatment by doing away with artificial substances and going natural, it is important that this thing is resolved at last. cialis samples tonysplate.com Salmon will tolerate warmer water if it is highly oxygenated.
There were outstanding hatches on Kennebago Lake, albeit two weeks later than normal. During the 3rd week in July, on either side of the causeway, were emerging hexes, green drakes, and brown drakes. They emerged primarily in the afternoon and early evening. It helped that the weather was relatively calm, very humid, and warm. Where there were springs to cool the bottom water temperatures, trout and a few salmon rose to the bugs off and on all day. They got very persnickety though with a lot of false hits on standard dry fly imitations. Cripples and emergers worked better. Because the hatch was so late most of the anglers were gone with only a few boats to enjoy the fast fishing. Most fish were under 12 inches, perhaps the water too warm for the larger fish.
I will try to update this blog more frequently, now that I am finished with the final editing of my book

It pays to be creative to avoid fishing crowded spots

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I have been busy guiding so I haven’t had a chance to update this blog. Fishing weather has been very interesting this year. Seasonably hot and dry weather for weeks and then cold, dreary, rainy weather for weeks. Shortly after ice-out, water temps warmed quickly and then with the cold, wet weather, they went the other way. Suckers showed up almost at the same time as the smelt. Midges started hatching but not much else. Water levels in Rangeley area lakes were low because anticipated heavy run-off never occurred. Now water levels are rising so most everything is backwards.

Fishing has been excellent at the Rapid, Magalloway, Rangeley River, #10 bridge, etc. because in places suckers showed up about the same time as the smelt and anglers did well fishing streamers and nymphing. Lots of fishermen though so fish got pounded quickly and moved. Appeared and disappeared. Anglers that hit it right did amazing while others just a day later were disappointed. I have never seen so many fishermen at the usual spots. I am afraid that the age of instant communication means that more people find out more quickly where the fishing is good. I have a video of 24 folks surrounding one group of fish on the Rapid. I counted 6 cars at the snowmobile bridge on the Maggalloway. One morning there were 12 fishing number 10 bridge. This certainly takes away from any sort of “back to nature experience”

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Don’t be afraid to fish different water. I fished an area last week where the fish in several popular pools were very jaded from a lot of fishing pressure. I fished a skinny run nearby and had it to myself and caught many trout. They were smaller but eager and I had a good time.