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March 20: Spring is coming – maybe

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What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, there were days in the 70’s, even up in Rangeley. Snow pack was non-existent and ice-out was only several weeks away for many water bodies. This year feels more like the winters that I remember. March has been snowy with many nights still dipping into the low teens and temperatures staying in the 30’s during the afternoon. There is no way ice-out in the Rangeley area is going to be in April this year. So for all of you that have procrastinated tying those ice-out streamers, you still have time.
A couple of updates… I now have a monthly column in the Maine Sportsman in which I will be writing about backcountry cycling (combined with fishing, hunting, birding, and other outdoor activities. Check over the last year. It is being published by a respected outdoor publisher, Wilderness Adventure Press, and will be out later this year in both paper and electronic versions.
Book excerpt for this month…
 It helps a great deal to have someone living near the water you want to fish so they can pass on what they see. When the ice has melted around the immediate shoreline and the color of the ice itself is closer to black than white, than ice out is imminent and it would be wise to start making up excuses for missing work.
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Lou

November fishing continued good

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Decent weather continued into mid November and the fly fishing in Southern Maine continued to be good in those bodies of water still open to fishing. The Presumpscott River was particularly good, not only the section near the Sebago dam but further down river below other ponds and dams. Water flows were low making wading and fish spotting easy, and water temperatures were still in the mid 40’s so the fish remained active. See my video of the action in early November. Later in the month flows increased significantly, limiting the fishing options somewhat
The attraction this time of year is the mix of fish you can hook up with. Good size brookies in gorgeous spawning colors are stocked as are large 18 inch plus browns. Holdover fish move up the river from ponds and lower parts of the river. I watched one guy net a wide and fat landlocked salmon that was over 4 pounds, and saw a picture of another 25 inch salmon (caught on a spinner). I also caught chubs and small mouth bass. Like I said, you never know.
Classic Maine streamers such as The Grey Ghost catch fish but nymphing has the highest rate of success. I nymph with copper johns in various colors as well as pheasant tails, and zebra midges. What tippet size to use is a dilemma; finer tippet sizes yield more fish, but breakoff’s are likely if you hook into a horse.
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Coastal streams that become brackish before emptying into the ocean stay warmer because of the ocean’s influence. Last fall, in southern Maine, the ocean temperature in some of the shallow bays and estuaries was still in the 60’s in early October. If you have never tried fishing for sea-run browns, I recommend it. From the Royal River in Yarmouth all the way down the Maine coast to New Hampshire, many streams have sea-runs. The Maine Sportsman newspaper and other publications give detailed descriptions every year of where to find them. I have a neighbor who every year catches browns over 20 inches from the Royal River, right in downtown Yarmouth. He uses very large lures and flies with lots of flash. I have had my best action with large soft-hackle marabou streamers in yellow and small muddlers. It usually isn’t fast fishing, but it is a thrill every once and awhile to hook one.

Hot October Fishing

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I don’t know if it is due to global climate change or some other factor but October’s are definitely warmer than they used to be in Western Maine. I remember years ago October’s were pretty cold – low 20’s at night and low 40’s during the day. This year in October lows were routinely in the high 30’s and highs were in the 50’s – nice fishing weather, and the fish cooperated.
Fishing at Upper Dam was excellent this October, good weather and low water flows made the fish accessible and active. The last weekend of the month brought heavy caddis hatches and brought the fish up. Knowledgable anglers were having 20 fish afternoons. Even without a hatch, fish were concentrated in the moving water at the tail of the pool and were very catchable among the rocks with European nymphing techniques. A few were quite large. I had one very wide salmon on for a while – I got to see him quite well when he jumped head high just ten feet away from me – until I had to work around a rock to follow him downstream. One slight dip with the rod tip gave him a bit of slack, and he was gone.
Fishing in southern Maine also was good as Maine Fish and Wildlife continued stocking several local rivers and holdover fish started appearing again. The brown trout and brook trout the state stocks in the fall are large, healthy, and have very good quality fins and colors. I fished to rising browns in both the Pleasant and Royal rivers in October. On one foggy, drizzly, and warm afternoon a blue-winged olive hatch occurred on the Royal below the old mill, and it was fun trying to catch browns on top. I also just missed a very large fish (sea run brown) that boiled the water around my nymph as it ended its drift and was swinging to the surface.
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During the late fall/early winter season, I continue the patterns and tactics that I used in the fall. In many rivers and streams, although the brook trout spawning is probably completed, the landlocked salmon and brown trout spawning is still continuing and those species will aggressively attack colorful streamers. This is particularly true in rivers and streams that stay warmer. Any river flowing out of a large lake will stay warmer because it takes more cold days for the large volume of lake water to cool. Last year, the upper Presumpscott River that orginates from Sebago Lake had temperatures in the upper 40’s, with brown trout still spawning in late-November, even though there was snow on the ground. I guided two people on the Presumpscott last year on the day after Thanksgiving, and they both hooked salmon and trout while nymphing (red copper johns) and wet fly fishing (partridge and orange).

September Summary

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All and All, September was a good month. There was just enough rain in the middle of the month to give the rivers some flow and keep the fish moving. The weather was warmer than normal and the river temperatures stayed warmer as well which was both good and bad. Towards the end of the month, with no new rain and heavy fishing pressure, the fishing definitely became tougher. Still, I observed being caught (or caught myself) dozens and dozens (maybe close to 100) wild trout and salmon over 14 inches (and up to 4 lbs) in September. The Rangeley area continues to have world class fly fishing for wild trout and salmon. The upper and lower Magaloway, upper and lower Kennebago, Upper Dam, and Bemis stream all produced beautiful fish. Perhaps the Rapid did too but I didn’t get there this fall. There are mouthsofthesouth.com online viagra many websites promoting erectile dysfunction medication. The Unit Head whispered to the ED “Sir, shall we call him to your chamber and talk there.” “Why?” generic cialis pharmacy roared the ED. Make sure to avoid saturated fat soft tabs viagra and cholesterol has been shown to improve erectile function in men. Because of its effectiveness, more and more people cheap discount viagra towards it. One day on the upper Magalloway, I guided four guys staying at Bosebuck and between them they landed 40 large trout and salmon.
Early in the month when the fish were fresher, streamers and large attractor dry flies were the most productive, then on some warmer cloudy days, smaller- more imitative dries were the ticket. Later in the month, when the fish has been fished over, short-line (Czech-style) nymphing was the way to go. As warm as it has been October fishing should hold up well in those waters that are still open.
I will post some pictures and videos soon.
Another book excerpt: Autumn river fishing is such an intellectual exercise. There is a myriad of potential approaches that range from fishing large gaudy streamers on fast sink line to miniscule midge larva on 3-weight rods, and everything in between. Conditions can range from torrents of water to drought, from snow to 80 degrees. Choose the correct approach and fly for the conditions, locate the migrating fish, and you can be rewarded with the fish of the season or even a lifetime. Fish in the wrong location at the wrong time, or choose a fly that doesn’t generate interest and you will catch zip.

Has fall fishing arrived?

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Hopefully, with the rain we received today, the start of fall fishing will begin. It has been slow the past few weeks with no rain, warm and low rivers, and most of the fish down deep and inaccessible. In mid-August we had a few heavy downpours in the Rangeley area and when the rivers came up briefly and cooled, I caught a couple of large early spawning run brookies in the Magalloway River and a few salmon became active in the Kennebago, but since then it’s been tough.
This rain should raise the rivers and the fish will start moving, first in the Maggalloway and then in the Kennebago, Rapid, Cupsuptic, and the Rangeley Rivers. I like intercepting the fish fresh from the lake – any reasonable streamer will work wonderfully. For those of you interested in me guiding you this fall, better call quickly, my calendar is filling up quickly. Excerpt from my book, “Flyfishing Northern New England: The Five Seasons”, the beginning of the Autumn section…

Autumn is my favorite time of the year. Crisp Nights, warm days, and endless blue sky. No mosquitoes, black flies, no-see-ums, deerflies – well, you get the picture. The chance to catch the biggest fish of the year in full spawning colors. As I write these words, I remember what I believe is one moment from one trip, but is most likely a mosaic of similar images and experiences from many trips that run together in my mind…

In the half-light of predawn, as I looked down at the dark rushing water, I could see nothing but a stream of white bubbles on the surface. Upstream, at the head of the pool, the water drops over a three-foot ledge and divides around a large submerged rock. To the right, the water races in a smooth arc before straightening for thirty yards and quickening again at the tail of the pool. Underneath the inside of the arc, the current has scoured the stream bottom to a depth of 10 feet or more. For a foot or so on the outside of the arc, where the current is slower, the water is only two feet deep over gravel and the occasional large rock.

It was on that rim that I was standing, casting a streamer upstream and then letting it drift down with the current. I was peering into the water, looking for my streamer because speed and depth were critical to success, as was the way it pulsated in the water.
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About ten feet out I spotted a bright red and yellow object twisting and turning in the current. Not my streamer, I realized, but a maple leaf. The leaf was a crimson and canary yellow color that only swamp maples can achieve during a New England September. It had fallen from a gnarled old swamp maple tree that leaned out over the water about 200 yards upstream Its extended branches had snared more than its share of my back casts over the years.

Closer to my feet, under the bubbles, I spotted my streamer, a fly that we call a marabou yellow ghost. It is tied just like a marabou black ghost, but with yellow marabou instead of white, and orange at the throat instead of yellow. As it drifted by and the line began to straighten, I gave a short strip – enough to twitch the streamer slightly from its otherwise natural drift.

For an instant, I thought I saw a dim white flash. Ten years ago I would not have recognized it as anything significant, if I had even noticed it at all. I cast upstream again, mending twice this time, sinking the streamer deeper into the water column. As the streamer passed over the rock where I had seen the flash, I twitched it upstream twice, feeling the adrenaline rush of anticipation that separates fly fishing from, well -most everything else. And then I felt the thump and my hand instinctively raised the rod tip at the same time.

As I wondered whether the salmon was hooked, I made two quick strips of line and then felt the solid weight of a well-hooked fish. Then, as if a final verification was required, the glistening shape of a landlocked salmon splashed over the surface of the water. As I pressured him out of the current, giving back line twice during two spirited runs, I idly thought to myself that intercepting the salmon as they make their annual fall spawning run is the highlight of my fishing year. The trick is being there when they are.

mid summer fishing

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The dog days of summer mean that one has to try different places and techniques to catch trout or salmon. Many of our favorite spots in June become too warm to fish successfully in late July or early August.
One of my favorite mid-summer places to fish is Cupsuptic Stream, both above and below the falls. This small stream stays cool all summer and the trout stay active. It isn’t a big stream and the runs and pools are not large so neither are the trout- they range from 4 to 8 inches with occasional bigger ones – but they are as beautiful as little jewels and have surprising yellow bellies. They almost look like a cross between a brook trout and a golden trout. The best way to fish is to wade wet and fish a 2 or 3 weight, with your favorite attractor dry fly, and unless you snag it in a tree, you can fish the same fly all day. You will probably get over 20 strikes in an afternoon.
The Upper Connecticut is another great mid-summer locale because water flows from a bottom-release dam and stays cold all summer. It is only an hour and change from the Kennebago area by car. I usually launch my kayak and paddle both up and down stream as I look for rises. Action tends to pick up towards evening when the light dims. I usually catch at least 6 fat energetic rainbows on ants or caddis imitations with the occasional brook trout or brown trout. Here is another excerpt from my upcoming book…
Fishing mountain streams at higher elevations is another possible summer strategy. I love to travel to the Presidentials in New Hampshire and hike up the myriad of trails that parallel small streams running down the side of the mountain. The water is clear and there is no algae, mud, or plant life of any kind because of the scouring it receives during the spring run off. It is rock, sand, water, and a few tree limbs. That’s it. It’s the kind of small stream that Disney tries to recreate in its theme parks or expensive resort landscaping but can never quite pull off. There are many mountain streams throughout Northern New England. I have enjoyed fishing the small streams in what is referred to as the” northeast kingdom” of Vermont. Staying in Vermont for a moment, during a normal summer, the feeder streams of the Batten Kill River can fish well for small brookies. Beautiful small streams also cascade off Mount Mansfield (also in Vermont), as well as the Mahoosic Mountains, Mount Katahdin, Saddleback, and Sugarloaf Mountains (in Maine).
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The gear is simple. A 3-weight 6 or 7-foot rod and a small fly box filled with a few Elk Hair Caddis, Parachute Adams, small Muddlers, and bucktail streamers are all that you need. There are no mysteries here. If the fish are present they will reveal themselves. If you don’t catch something quickly, keep moving. Sometimes a steam will have become too acidic to support trout. Other times it has been over fished.

The Rapid River

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I have gotten behind on my blog posts but hopefully I can catch up.
I guided on the Rapid River in the middle of June during a hot sunny stretch of weather and there were fish to be caught but you had to work for them. We had most of our success on dry flies. Early on the trip, fish liked small black ants fished in the film, probably because there had been a lot of small black ants, beetles, and stoneflies on the water in great numbers throughout all of western Maine in June. On the 3rd day, stoneflies started emerging in large numbers – three weeks earlier than normal – and some fish switched to the larger food. Then the next day, Alder flies started emerging and after a day or so, some fish started on them -although some fish were still only interested in black ants. So we kept switching between Alder fly, Stone fly, and ant imitations until we got fish to strike.We caught fish on dries below the old lower dam site, between the 1st and 2nd currents, and at middle dam. The following is a relevant book excerpt:

The Androscoggin and Rapid Rivers generate clouds of greenish and dark brown Alder Flies (a species of caddis fly) in late June. Every year I have clients that want to fish the famous Alder Fly hatch. One year, Brett (a fellow guide) and I were guiding four clients on the upper stretches of the Rapid during the Alder Fly hatch. The company viagra cialis prix will cater your needs, whether you want single or multiple merchant accounts. Always Purchase Kamagra from a Reliable Store With increasing demand of these medicines, many retailers are best prices on levitra offering counterfeited Kamagra Tablets. Insurance companies will buy generic cialis you can check here sometimes cover this type of medication, but it is rare since ED is not a confirmed side effect. Getting a degree as a http://appalachianmagazine.com/2014/02/27/car-trips-along-the-appalachian-trail-in-the-northeast/ levitra 60 mg B. I noticed literally hundreds of the bugs in the Cedar trees lining the bank, but initially our clients wondered what the big deal was about. There were no flies emerging on the water and no fish rising. We rigged up and started casting dry flies, but there wasn’t much action. One of the guys along the bank walked through some cedar branches and suddenly there were hundreds of flies in the air. Then a gust of wind blew and a dozen flies hit the water, followed immediately by a bunch of quick rises until the Alder Flies were consumed. My sports’ eyes got wide – now they got it. After that, every time a wind gust blew a few flies into the water and my clients cast one or another Alder Fly imitation, they would get a rise from a landlocked salmon or a trout. The fish weren’t easy, often there would be a last second refusal, but plenty of fish were caught.

What a difference a week makes

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On the 1st of June, rivers were getting lower in the mountains of Maine and then 3-8 inches of rain fell – depending upon where you were. On June 1st, I was guiding at the end of the Rangeley River, where it dumps into Cupsuptic, and where two weeks before there had been good water flow and lots of good brook trout – now it was low, clear water and mostly small chubs rising. Fortunately, upstream in the pocket water there were hundreds of small caddis emerging, and nice chunky trout were hitting caddis imitations or nymphs.
And then the rains started… By June 8th, the rivers were high (but dropping) and the increased flow had brought fish in. Fishing reports have been good from the Rapid to Upper Dam to Kennebago. I guided my wife on the Kennebago on the 10th and she caught 6 good salmon out of just one pool on weighted streamers. Always good for the marriage.
Various mayflies and small black stoneflies continued to emerge off and on on Kennebago Lake. This is the time when fishing a hornberg dry really works (and also small black ants or something similar for the stoneflies).

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To really “knock em dead”, day in and day out, whether there are a lot of flies around or just a few, when it is calm or rough, cold or warm – well, you get the picture- the best fly to use is a number 14 gray Hornberg fished dry. The Hornberg is not a widely fished fly But if you want outside of northern New England but it may be one of the top five dry flies in Maine.

The Hornberg is constructed with a thin black and tinseled body, a standard grizzly dry fly hackle, and mallard feather wings. The uniqueness of the fly comes from the fact that the wings are tied in lengthwise but “on edge”, one on either side of the hook so a tent shape is produced. There are streamers tied that way but it is unique for a dry fly. My preference is to fish the hornberg on the surface without movement until a cruising fish finds it. I have found the Hornberg to be a killer imitating the early season mayfly duns as they rest on the water surface drying their wings. From our perspective, hornbergs don’t really look all that much like mayfly duns but to the fish looking up to the surface, I think it is a different story. Perhaps the hackle looks like the mayfly’s legs and the edge of the hornberg wing feather indents the surface of the water like a thin mayfly body and the wing silhouette looks like mayfly wings. My experience is that it works better than more exact imitations because it is impressionistic with exaggerated strike-triggering characteristics

It’s Hatch Time

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The sucker spawning activity has come and gone but there was good fishing to be had while it lasted. Lots of fishermen around too. One morning at the #10 bridge on the Magalloway River I counted 7 cars fishing there and another 5 cars parked at “the snowmobile bridge” trail. That is a lot of fishermen for a small area. The parking area at the Rangeley River by that snowmobile bridge was also full of cars. My clients during that week caught a number of fish on sucker spawn imitations but also green-colored nymphs such as a green copper john. I had someone slip in the Maggalloway and when he pulled himself up his waders were covered with olive green caddis larva so It is no mystery why green is a good color. Salmon were active up and down the Magalloway and were still whacking streamers –so were the big fallfish that were starting their spawning activities. Many fisherman, particularly beginners enjoy catching the two to three pound fallfish. It is good practice for setting the hook and playing a big fish – the larger ones fight pretty well.
Fishing the sucker spawn is always interesting – on the upper Mag (above the gates –have to stay at Bosebuck to access) – one riffle runs into a pool in five distinct mini current streams. Fish were stacked up in only one – the others were vacant –even though each current looked similar. Sucker eggs must have been drifting down there and nowhere else.
The first hatches started in the logan on Kennebago Lake with very few anglers around. Brook trout in the 12-16 range could be taken on dries which is always a treat. These early mayflies actually start to emerge under the water, fly rapidly away, and don’t linger at the surface, so emerger patterns work better than traditional dry flies, particularly for larger fish. Here is an excerpt from my upcoming book –from the chapter on spring hatches…
Ahh… the warmer days of late spring and early summer – the season of mayfly hatches – the foundation of fly fishing, and for many, its soul. Consider all the bank-side discussions shared, the flies tied, and even many a book written, waiting for the hatch to start.
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The biggest key to success is also the most difficult to pull off – be on the water when a hatch occurs. Since hatches are very unpredictable, it is best to keep your fishing schedule flexible, be around the water as often as you can to observe what is happening, and fish when you see evidence of a hatch, regardless of the time of day. Very difficult to do when you have conflicting needs on your time – little things like a job or a family. Have you ever noticed that many successful and/or famous fly fishing “gurus” don’t have wives or families? At least not for long, and I don’t think it is a coincidence.
I hope to get videos from the smelt run and sucker spawn up on the sight soon. Check back next week.

Smelt gone – Suckers starting soon

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The smelt run ended a little over a week ago but people caught a lot of big fish in the Rangeley area. It seemed like the smelt run lasted longer than normal and since the water was lower almost everywhere, it was easy to reach the big trout and salmon that were feeding on the smelt. I saw more large (from 2.5 to 4 pound) trout caught in a few days than I have ever seen. I guided a guy who caught 6-8 (I lost count) trout over 2 pounds in two days. I fished several days as well and caught two trout on successive casts that were over four pounds. Of course my video camera ran out of memory right before I landed them so I have no photographic evidence – but my buddy saw them. Most all the fish were caught on a certain smelt imitation pattern that not too many people use. But people were catching them on a variety of patterns. When I get a break from guiding I will post videos of the smelt run so you can get a sense of it. Because of the early warm weather there were some good hatches as well of blue-winged olives and plenty of fish caught on dry flies and small nymphs that imitate blue-winged olives. The Rangeley River and the Maggalloway river above Parmachenee (have to stay at Bosebuck camps to fish there) had anglers with 15 fish afternoons. The Rangeley river had some really fat and strong fish that fought hard, although I did better nymphing than with dry flies, but the fish were rising.

Now it is time for the suckers to start their spawning run and if one is in the correct spot, nymphing with sucker egg patterns can be very productive. Here is an excerpt from my book on the subject…

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Although smelt runs get most of the attention, as spring progresses and stream temperatures increase and water levels drop, other spring spawning runs can bring outstanding fishing. Following the smelt (about two weeks later) are the suckers, followed one or two weeks after that by fallfish (some call them chubs) and black-nose dace. Sucker spawn is small and varies in color. Most that I have seen are pale to medium yellow in color. Eggs leak from female suckers before and during the actual spawning activity. Trout and salmon line up behind sucker schools, feasting on the yellow eggs. I have caught a salmon, opened its mouth to remove the fly, and its gullet appeared to be full of lemon jello because it had swallowed so many eggs. Fishing can be so good during the sucker spawning run in the Rapid River that several guides I know turn down guiding jobs (even knowing there would be large tips involved) to fish themselves for brook trout up to 5 pounds. Believe me; I have seen the pictures (carefully edited to remove any landmarks that might reveal the exact location). Fishing the sucker spawn is not easy – it took me ten years to learn the intricacies of it – those that have figured it out don’t share readily. I can’t really blame them.