Late summer and early fall were and are both similar to mid-summer and different. Sorry for that first sentence – compound and confusing! What I mean is that the drought continues but the temperatures have returned to what is more typical for fall.
Rain continues to be hard to come by. Since my last report a month ago, most of Maine received maybe one rainstorm or thunderboomer of about an inch. A few lucky locations received two. An inch of rain in a month does not break the drought but prolongs it. Rivers are now lower than they have been all year. This holds true for most of New England. I saw some photos recently of the Missiquoi River in northern Vermont and it looked like a creek, not a river. The Dead Diamond in the Dartmouth Grant has been running below 50 CFS for weeks.
On the other hand, the temperatures in the mountains the last week of August struggled to hit 60 with lows near 40. This is what was typical years ago and trees are already starting to turn – a month earlier than some of our more recent warm weather Septembers.
What does all this mean for the fishing? Well, it means the water temperatures in lakes and ponds rapidly fell into the low 60s and rivers on cold mornings were as low as the high 40s. This has brought some trout and salmon back into the shallows, and caused bass and other species to start to feed aggressively. Trout and salmon will not ascend the rivers and streams to spawn when they are low, so they are staging around river inlets and outlets, or in the larger lower pools waiting. With low water, anglers who know these spots can sight fish these schools of fish and do very well.
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As it seems like I have been saying a lot lately….Pray for rain. Could be worse. My son is in California where it has been well over 100 degrees with heavy smoke from the fires. My daughter is in northern Florida, where it has been 96 with very high humidity for weeks. Are there really still people that believe global climate change is a hoax?
The forecast for this week is perhaps some rain midweek but only a 50/50 chance. Any raising of the rivers will immediately bring a flush of fish. Systems where dam operators release water from lakes to raise the river for fish to migrate (such as the Kennebago River) may see small flow increases as water is released, but they only have so much water. In the meantime, fish lakes and ponds, or battle your fellow anglers in big pools where trout and salmon congregate.
If you don’t already, follow me on Instagram @ mainelyflyfishing. If you want to maximize your fall fishing, all of my three books address the challenges and opportunities of fall fishing extensively. I will be posting photos and videos from the last few weeks soon.