Before I give you the fishing report, a few housekeeping items to cover. First, don’t forget to follow me @mainelyflyfishing on Instagram. Interesting photos posted almost every day.I am in cell phone range. Second, here are other locations that you can find my books signed by me: Northwoods Outfitters in Greenville, Maine, Matagamon Campground near Shin Pond, Maine, and Sherman Book and Stationary in Freeport, Maine (and their four other affiliated bookstore locations),

As for the fishing report….Bugs are emerging everywhere and that means good fishing and possible anemia from blood loss due to biting insects. In certain locations, the mosquitos and blackflies are the worst in decades due to the cool and wet spring. I was up in northern Baxter State Park camping and fishing Webster Stream and the black flies and mosquitos were epic. I had to wear what was literally like a beekeepers suit for three straight days. If you exposed the back of your hand for five seconds without moving it, a half dozen mosquitos would land on it.

This is always a frustrating time for me because so many fishing options exist and one has only so much time. Smallmouth and largemouth bass are still in the shallows. Stripers have arrived along the Maine coast. Stocked fisheries still have good water flow and plenty of stockers left to catch. Wild trout and salmon have moved into many rivers and are biting aggressively. Calm evenings in Northern New England’s ponds and lakes bring rises to early season mayflies and caddis. Decisions, decisions – where to fish.

This is the time of year when I receive many inquiries from readers concerning where to fish. My answer is always (1) choose the type of fishing that you want to do- (2) find a convenient type of water that offers that type of fishing, (3) try it, and if you don’t find action fairly quickly, go to your second choice, and last but not least (4) dress for biting insects! I will post more when I am not heading to the water, but here are a selection of photos that demonstrate the diversity of fly fishing that mark this time of year.

Red-eyed smallmouoth bass hit my small chartreuse popper on Damariscotta Lake,

Largemouth bass were also active on Damariscotta Lake

My daughter, Mary, with a beautiful brook trout caught on the always productive Royal Wulff fly pattern by casting to an undercut bank.

Fishing isn’t always just about the catching. Along Webster Stream in Baxter State Park were the most gorgeous white lady slippers. A Lady Slipper is actually an orchid but one adapted to live in the northeastern US and Canada. When you closely examine its leaves and flower then it is obvious that it has a distinct orchid look to it.

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Hello everyone,

Sorry that I have been tardy posting during this most important part of the fly fishing season, but my wife and I purchased a new home quite suddenly and that means trying to spruce up and sell our current home. No, I am not talking about our Kennebago Lake retreat but our winter home in Cumberland. New abode is on Dundee Pond, an impoundment of the Presumpscot River in Windham.

                             New winter house on Dundee Pond

Let me give a quick shout out to Deerfield Fly Shop on the lower Deerfield River in Massachusetts (www.deerfieldflyshop.com). They now stock all three of my books. If you have never floated the Deerfield River,  I highly recommend it. Not only is it full of trout, but the river fishes well almost all year, when most of our home rivers are either too cold or too hot. This is due to the fact that the water is fed by a bottom-release dam. Contact the Deerfield Fly Shop for more information

Across all of New England, the last two weeks of May featured more of the same in regards to weather – cloudy, wet, and cold. Water temperatures in the Rangeley area struggled to rise out of the 40’s and hatches were sparse. Most rivers ran high enough to be unfishable. We even had a frost on June 1.

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My daughter, Mary’s handprint melts the solid frost on the picnic table at Kennebago early June 1st morning.

The best fishing was where trout and salmon were still chasing smelt, or feeding on sucker spawn. The lower Mags and Camp 10 Bridge fished fine after the flow went down, as did small ponds where the water warmed more quickly.

Not a great photo because we wanted to put the fish back in the water quickly, but Wilderness Press editor of all of my books, Josh holds a 19 inch very fat brookie, caught on sucker spawn.

On a small trib of Kennebago lake, we found good trout still on the lookout for smelt. This fish took a smelt version of the Cosohammer Streamer.

As we enter early June, things are picking up. Water temps have reached 50 and hatches are beginning in earnest, although we are at least two weeks behind. Leaves aren’t even out yet at Kennebago. With flows good and warmer temps forecast, fishing should improve. A few salmon are even being caught on the lower Kennebago River.I will give a further update next week.

Winter is slowly releasing its grip on the waters of the Maine mountains. Ice is almost out with much open water on Kennebago, Mooselock, Rangeley, and Moosehead Lakes. Roads are not completely passable with frost and water still imbedded in the roads, making it easy for vehicles to get stuck in the quicksand-like road surface.

Where snow drifted, parts of dirt roads are still covered with ice and snow. The back road from the Kennebago causeway to the backgate, for example, still had drifts over six feet high as of last Thursday.

Road to back gate at Kennebago Lake on May 8th

This camp owner isn’t getting down his driveway anytime soon.

You can’t tell from the photo but the snow is over six feet high.

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Ice holding on at Kennebago Lake.

My new book, “In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout” is now available in more locations including, The Deerfield Fly Shop in Massaschusetts (www.deerfieldflyshop.com). The Orvis Flagship store in Manchester Vermont – by the end of next week (https://stores.orvis.com/us/vermont/Manchester) https://stores.orvis.com/us/vermont/manchester,, and Northshire Book Store in Manchester as well. (www.northshire.com )Still available at Evening Sun fly shop (www.eveningsunflyshop).