Hi Everyone,
Over Memorial Day weekend, Rangeley area rivers continued to run cold and high, but dropping, with hatches starting. Anglers were packing into the Camp 10 Bridge pools on the upper Mags and catching fish with the sucker spawn going full force. The flow below Azischos Dam was finally dropped to a reasonable 650 on May 19th and anglers took full advantage with people everywhere. Plenty of fish in the Rangeley River and upper Kennebago although that river was tough to fish well, given the high flow.
With hot weather, arriving the last week of May, hatches started in earnest in northern and mountain Maine lakes and ponds with the usual assortment of early mayflies in the Henderickson/Quill Gordon/March Brown family. Temperatures have fluctuated all over the place with cold days featuring morning temps in low 30s, followed by days in the 80’s, and then back to cold weather again. On May 30 temps in the Rangeley area were in the mid 80’s. After a severe thunderstorm knocked out power, the high temps on June 1 were in the mid 40’s.
I got to fish the Rangeley River briefly for two mornings over the Memorial Day weekend, and blissfully had it to myself. Of course, the second morning I arrived at 5 am. Hey, the early bird….It helps that it was light by 415. I love nymphing this river in May. The water is so clear, and high-stick nymphing so productive.
All the fish seemed to want sucker spawn egg patterns, even though I didn’t see one sign of a sucker. This river gets fished heavily, so it is important to show trout and salmon patterns they haven’t seen. I hooked a few fish on royal coachman patterns, but they only wanted them skittered across the surface – not a combination I have tried often. More realistic emerger or low-profile patterns drifted naturally; they ignored.
I love the translucent quality of Rangeley River spring trout. Almost like a salter. This was actually a good-sized fish, my giant hands and this angle is misleading. You can clearly see the sucker egg pattern.
On the Kennebago River (not saying where), hatches had not started in earnest, but some big trout had made their way up river from the lake. My wife hooked 4 or 5 that were well over two pounds, alas, only landing a couple, getting caught with 5X tippet – expecting dry-fly action and smaller fish. I did land a good fish later on with a soft-hackle marabou streamer. It happened to duplicate an event that I captured in the chapter on landing large and powerful fish in my In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout book. For those of you who have the book, look up the photo on page 201. This trout took my fly in exactly the same spot as the photo and I did exactly the same thing. But now you can watch this video to see the conclusion.
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By the way, the reason I didn’t play the trout off of the reel is that my drag was being balky and I didn’t trust it in this situation.
Just as the action was picking up during the last week of May, my wife and I packed up and drove straight to Florida (without stopping in any public place) to see my five-month old grandson. Some things take priority over fishing.
My daughter does live on Lake Killarney, an excellent warmwater fishery. so I am still getting some fishing in.
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