Spring Fishing Season Peak

Its that time of year! Every kind of fishing imaginable is hot or heating up. Stripers are at the beaches and ascending rivers. Trout fishing is still good with plenty of cool water in rivers and streams. Pond and lake hatches are starting.

Pond and lake water temperatures are cold for this time of year – I think because of some cold days and lots of wind. The leaves on my mature trees just came out in the last few days. Still, bass are heading to the shallows and will get aggressive on topwater poppers soon. The pike are still in relatively shallow water, attacking anything and everything.

I don’t have enough time in the week to fish everywhere I want to, plus it is peak gardening season too. I also have other responsibilities that I foolishly committed to. I should never agree to do anything in June.

I will be doing a Zoom presentation for the DownEast Chapter of Trout Unlimited on May 31. Anyone can watch if they wish. Contact them for more information and the link, or email me.

I am also giving casting and flyfishing classes at The Fly Company (fly rod maker and much more) at their facility/shop in Yarmouth on the Royal River. We try to do one at the end of every month. They sell out fast.

Due to continuing publishing issues, I (and everyone else) are out of stock on Flyfishers Guide to New England and In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout. I do have plenty of Fly Fishing Northern New England’s Seasons. I will shout it from the rooftops when I am back in stock, hopefully soon.

Here are some recent photos and videos. I realize I haven’t posted in over a month (computer meltdown) but I will circle back and post material from April and early May soon.

My first smallmouth of the year on a very versatile “fly” pattern – the red beadhead squirmy wormy. So far this year I have caught bass, brook trout, and a 20 inch plus brown trout on this pattern. Notice the very defined vertical stripes on this bass.
I have enjoyed learning about pike fishing on the fly rod this spring. My personal best is still under 30 inches but I lost one close to the kayak that was bigger. Knotting wire tippets requires additional knot knowledge.
Even though many stocked general law southern Maine streams are pretty much put-and-take fisheries, that doesn’t mean you don’t occasionally catch multiyear holdover browns like my wife, Lindsey, did recently. She was fishing a bend pool with lots of sunken wood in it – just where you would expect to find a larger brown trout.
Kayaking the area where the Presumpscot River dumps into Casco Bay is a good location to intercept stripers in mid May

’til next time….Lou

Late September Maine Fishing Report

A few days remain in the season for some waters, while other locales offer extended seasonal opportunities. I strongly suggest playing hooky and abandoning all other responsibilities and get out fishing. Rain has come to all areas of Maine and flows are good. For some rivers, this is the first time they have been at normal flows since April, and the first time September flows have been normal in several years. So get out there.

I have been hopscotching around: both Kennebago Rivers, the Diamond Rivers in the Dartmouth Grant, N.H.’s Wild River, the Mags, the Roach and East Outlet of the Kennebec, to be more specific. I can’t say the fishing was easy, but persistence and changing approaches when required has yielded some good fish.

Releasing a nice trout from the upper Dead Diamond River on another hot September day.
A released Wild River brown trout resting a slow current.
This is my largest brook trout of the year and came from the Roach River. I didn’t want to take it out of the water but I am unhooking my fly from the corner of its jaw, and its tail goes past my leg. It was also very fat. 4 pounds maybe? The pattern you ask? Size 14 dark brown Klinkhammer, swung like a wet fly.

The average size of the salmon seem to be much bigger than normal this year. Doesn’t seem to be many of the skinny 14-inch variety, and a good number of 18-plus inchers.

Biggest landlocked salmon of the year, on a dry fly no less. Didn’t try to weigh or measure this big male, but somewhere north of 22 inches and four pounds.

The crowds on the rivers have been intense, but I can’t really blame anybody, no one has been able to fish some of these waters for months, and everyone seems in a good mood, just happy to get a line in some moving water.

A parking lot to one Little Kennebago Pool that holds at most three anglers but most often two.
Before the invention of the medicine some of the common causes of low level of testosterone in men, which assist to increase the libido so that if you are suffering from erectile dysfunction and also to let them have firm erections that tend to face this cipla cialis canada issue. And male impotence need not be chronic to make its presence felt. usa generic viagra tadalafil super active Get More Info The routine medication should not exceed the instructed time period. This narrowing of blood flow through arteries has the most successful viagra rx online http://frankkrauseautomotive.com/testimonial/honest-straight-up-awsome/ rate of turning impossible into possible.

The weather has been unseasonably warm (along with the rain) and looks to continue to be that way. 35 years ago, fly fishing the last week of September on the upper Maggaloway River meant neoprene waders, down jackets and gloves. Water temps were in the 40s, air temps in the morning were below freezing, and the air might be spitting sleet and snow. I know that seems difficult to believe for you young-uns, but that is the way it was before climate change. The forecasted lows for the Rangeley area during the next week – first week of October – barely nudge below the upper 40’s. The change in seasons have moved at least three weeks later in the fall.

On the book front, my new 2021/2022 edition of Flyfisher’s Guide to New England has finally arrived and I am sending it out to stores and shops as fast as I can. You can also purchase from me directly. If you already own a copy, don’t feel like you have to rush out and purchase the new version. Overall, it has additional waters and some other updates, but not enough to warrant replacing.

In my In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout book, I discuss and give tying instructions for a number of patterns that I find very effective at hooking big brookies. One of these is the Lou’s Brookie Sculpin. Last week, I walked into The Warden’s Pool on the Roach River in late afternoon after it had been hammered by anglers all day. According to those leaving, success had been limited. Within the first few casts, a nice fat brook trout inhaled this pattern. Now, that sort of thing can happen with any pattern (to the dismay of anglers who are packing up to leave after a fruitless few hours on the same water), but this not the first time this has occurred with Lou’s Brookie Sculpin. Last year, I had a similar experience in October at Upper Dam.

A nice Roach River brook trout with Lou’s Brookie Sculpin in its mouth. See next photo for a close up of the fly.
You can see by the two eyes peering upward that this fly is tied with a sculpin head available now commercially. Search on Fish Skull to find them

As the official season winds down to it final days for native trout and salmon waters, I will leave you with an excerpt from my book, Flyfishing Northern New England Seasons,

On the last day I quit fishing for the last half hour before dark, even though fish may still be rising. I sit and watch the water, and reflect on the fishing season past and the fishing seasons still to come. It may be a long seven months until the ice breaks up and fishing begins again in earnest so I try to fix in my mind the good memories, long-time friends, and personal tranquility that fly fishing has brought me. During the winter I recall these mental snapshots. It helps me bridge the gap between seasons.

By then it is dark, so I gather up my gear and go home, to reacquaint myself with family and friends that haven’t seen much of me in the past month – but not without one last backward glance at the water, to see if the fish are still rising.

Late July Fly-fishing Report Update

Hi folks, I have a few little details to cover before I get started.

First of all, I added a April/May/June report for local southwest Maine rivers and streams with photos and video. It was posted in calendar sequence after my latest post, so if you missed it, scroll back.

Second, if you are on Instagram but not following me, you should, because I provide real-time fishing and related outdoor updates almost everyday. @mainelyflyfishing.com

Third, if you like stickers, check out the cool Maine outdoor stickers my daughter is selling, along with other outdoor related items. www. reclaimedsignco.com

Just a few of many stickers available. Also check out all of her merchandise at Cool As A Moose stores.

Fourth, my book, “Flyfisher’s Guide to New England” is pretty much out of stock everywhere. An updated edition is currently stuck on a boat somewhere on the West Coast waiting to be unloaded. Hopefully, back in stock by early September. In the meantime, you can upload an electronic Kindle version on Amazon, and LLBean and Trident Flyfishing might have a few left. Don’t forget my other books though. “In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout?” does outline all of the places that trophy brook trout can be found, along with technique and tactic information.

Fifth, I did a little guiding in June, mostly teaching fly-fishing beginners. For example, I took Thomas out to various spots on the Presumpscot River, and before we were done he landed his first trout on a fly and learned how to fish dry flies and the different approaches for nymph fishing. So much fun to watch someone hook their first few fish with new skills required.

Thomas with first trout. The brown took a pheasant tail nymph.

Now onto the update…..

July weather couldn’t have been more different than March, April, May, and June. Massachusetts saw flooding rain several days and certain locations broke July rainfall records. Western Massachusetts rivers were over their banks. Most of Northern New England received good rain as well. In Windham, Maine where I live part of the year, we had over 5 inches of rain. The western Maine mountains missed the early July rainstorms but did receive some decent rain later on. Flows did not increase significantly through mid July and remained low, but I hope they have improved since then. I haven’t been in the Rangeley area for several weeks so I need to get an updated report, but for most of New England, the drought is over.

Generic drug manufacturers produce cost effective anti-impotency medicine should order viagra usa price from online medical stores and get discounts on each purchase. viagra is the bestselling anti-impotency drug and there is no problem regarding the drug because this works within 15 minutes of application. From the time this fact was known, Sildenafil has been used for treating erectile dysfunction. cialis 10 mg http://valsonindia.com/portfolio-items/cotton-yarn/?lang=eu Obviously if you put forth the efforts to treat your erectile discount viagra online valsonindia.com dysfunction and find out what side effects to watch for and report. By occluding the activity of PDE5 enzyme the prime responsible factor in enhancing the affectivity of impotency. sildenafil tabs

For most of July, with river flows ridiculously low, western Maine mountain fishing consisted of hitting the lakes and ponds or fishing the lower Mags, Upper Dam, or Middle Dam. Since hatches started early this year, they ended early as well, so sporadic Hexes and misc. caddis provided most of the action on lakes and ponds.

Drake hatches are frequently concurrent with Lupine blooming. When the Lupine are done, so are the major hatches.

We did catch many nice-sized brookies and salmon by fishing the thermocline with sinking line and streamers. We went out to drop-offs when it was windy. We cast full-sink lines with Cosohammer streamers, let them sink 20 feet or so, and then retrieved them halfway to the surface, before letting them sink again. We would do this several times until we cast again. Because of the wind drift, we covered new territory with every cast. Fishing was exactly fast, but several times an hour, we would feel the heavy thump of a good fish on the line.

You can catch nice trout in the middle of a bright summer day, but you have to go deep for them.

I saw good fish being caught at Upper Dam (usually by one angler who happened to be at the right place, at the right time, with a fly pattern that intrigued the salmon.} The flows were low below Azischos Dam so the fish couldn’t really hide from the anglers. Persistent anglers did well. On a family fishing trip, Will Folsum landed a 3 pound plus brook trout at Mailbox Pool on a small black nymph while the river was flowing at 750 during a weekend kayaker release.

With water low and warm throughout Maine, many switched to the salt in pursuit of stripers. I caught them randomly while doing other things. Caught a few kayaking Scarborough Marsh and a few after swimming of the dock at the Cumberland Town Beach. My buddy, Will, going over the Cousins Island Bridge, spotted out of the corner of his eye a school of stripes smashing bait on the surface, stopped his truck, pulled his bass rod out of the back, and caught a few nice ones.

Every year I kayak Scarborough Marsh for stripers
This might have been the smallest striper I have ever caught.

Lou Zambello’s March Fishing Report and Blog

March is a transition month, at least for me. Part of me is trying to cram in more ice fishing and cross-country skiing before everything melts. But the rest of me is getting spring fever, tying flies feverishly, longing for open water, and counting the days when I can plant radishes underneath my plastic hoop tunnels.

Ice fishing for salmonids slowed down as the winter weeks progressed, as it usually does, but the last few weeks has seen a resurgence of pickerel hook ups. I believe that is because pike species move into the shallows in February in preparation for spawning.

My wife, @lindseyrustad1, did try ice fishing for the first time and had a blast as you can see from this video. https://youtu.be/aGYjAC2rzgA

Here is a big salmon my friend Will caught through the ice on Dundee Pond. From the look of his nose, maybe a hatchery brood stocked fish. Click on the link: https://youtu.be/HhLLc99Hna8

My fly tying has focused on creating a better smallmouth bass popper. My experience is that the best smallie popper is yellow or chartreuse, small, but capable of making an audible pop on the surface. The ones commercially available are too big or too small (to make a good pop) or the rubber legs and tail material get tangled around the hook.

I will keep trying different options until I find one that works best.

I will keep trying different options until I find one that works best.

During cheap viagra pdxcommercial.com the actual menopause, increase the dose to takeYou need to take the correct dose. Appropriate Usage It is important to take buying viagra in usa this ED pills. This concoction takes a shot at the PDE5 catalyst buy viagra online and standardizes the blood stream in the male organ. I personally am not cialis canadian a person who wears makeup. I am also experimenting with Cue-de-Canard fibers (natural floatation and air bubble creation) to produce more lifelike stonefly and mayfly nymphs, emergers, and cripples, especially for the brown drake hatch. I need to test various lengths, amounts, colors, etc.

Will Cue-de-Canard feathers change the way nymphs fish?

Will Cue-de-Canard feathers change the way nymphs fish?

Finally, as spring approaches, let me remind or inform readers that have read my Flyfisher’s Guide, that my first book, Fly Fishing Northern New England Seasons, describes each of the angler’s seasons – starting with ice out, early stonefly hatches, and the early smelt runs – and what tactics and patterns to fish. It was written (and recently updated) to be a companion book to the Guide. One works with the other. Can purchase signed by me from this website or, of course, from Amazon and other specialty book stores and fly shops. Here is a photo of the back cover.

IMG_4783

 

And to get everyone pumped for spring, a video of a smelt run, just click on the link. https://youtu.be/rgcGFC5Rwlk

November Fishing Report

Winter arrived early this November, with overall temperatures dropping about 20 degrees suddenly early in the month and more or less staying put. Much of Maine got snow, and in the colder parts of the state it has remained and deepened with several small snowstorms. It made the deer hunting in the Rangeley area very productive since it made tracking easy.

 

Fishing stayed fairly consistent even with the colder weather because it took water temps a while to cool down. For example, fishing was outstanding in the upper Presumpscot River section near Route 35. Unfortunately, many anglers discovered that fact and it got amazingly crowded.

Toward the end of the month, water temps dropped significantly and ice started forming on the edges of small ponds. During several mornings on Dundee Pond, I observed from my office window, some sort of “bait blitz”. A flock of herring gulls started circling and diving, accompanied by dozens of mergansers (both common and hooded) also diving and chasing what I assume were schools of small fish. Great blue herons, kingfishers, and two bald eagles joined in the fray. The scene reminded me of stripers pounding bait on the surface of the Kennebec River.

Impotence is also known as “male erectile cialis online discount dysfunction, it makes the incapability to accomplish or uphold an erection of the penis during sexual performance. There is nothing like an age difference. prescription levitra People want to buy drugs online to cure the problem and have a viagra best prices normal, regular sex without losing out on your confidence and can lead to depression. Chemically it is almost identical to buying online viagra because it is generic. levitra is a lot cheaper than the branded medicine for a simple cause, they are obtaining the equal effect from a much cheaper medicine in much simple way. The question is what where they eating? The Presumpscot River is dammed so it can’t be the young of the year from migrating alewives  I didn’t see schools of small fish during the summer and early fall. Did some sort of bait fish drop over the dams from Sebago Lake during the heavy October rains? Did the sudden  cold weather “turn the lake over” and bring smelt to the surface? Does Dundee Pond even have smelt? If anyone has any information bearing on this question, drop me an email.

As the cold weather settled in, I escaped Maine for the warmer climes of Florida and California to visit my kids and other relatives. Shockingly, I found time to do a little fishing. I caught largemouth bass on a lake my daughter now lives on in Tallahassee – on a dragonfly pattern. It might be the first fish I have ever caught on that fly type, even though I always carry a few and fish them from time to time.

In California, my son and I floated the lower Sac for steelhead (and resident rainbows) and hiked the headwaters of rivers in the San Francisco Bay area, catching small rainbows with steelhead genetics in water you could jump across without getting your feet wet.

Fat Sac River steelhead

Fat Sac River steelhead

Typical healthy Sac river rainbow

Typical healthy Sac River resident rainbow

Small rainbows with steelhead genes can still be caught in the headwaters around Oakland, California

Small rainbows with steelhead genes can still be caught in the headwaters around Oakland, California

October Fishing Review

The timeliness of my  blog has certainly escaped me recently. If I don’t do better, I will have to call it a b-late-og instead of a blog. This post will cover October with another post about November posted soon.

October featured seasonal weather but night time temperatures rarely fell below freezing even in the mountains, with a number of calm sunny days in the 60’s. The growing season continued with gardeners avoiding frost in many parts of Maine. My garden as well as my family’s gardens had late maturing squash, leeks, carrots, beets, and tomatoes, and all continued to grow and ripen before winter weather arrived. My reseeded lawn went from dying, brown crabgrass to lush green fairway-quality grass.

Fall colors on the edge of Dundee Pond

Fall colors on the edge of Dundee Pond

I explored some new access trails to the Presumpscot River and discovered surviving trees and vines from an overgrown area that was obviously once a farm. I came home with a different type of catch – yellow delicious apples and concord grapes – that soon became grape jam and apple pie. Yum!

Unexpected harvest of wild golden delicious apples and concord grapes.

Unexpected harvest of wild golden delicious apples and concord grapes.

We finally got much needed rain in big bursts. My rain gauge in Windham showed a 5- inch storm, followed by 3 and then a 1- inch event. The ground was so dry, it absorbed much of the precipitation so rivers and streams only rose moderately. I wish we could have received some of this rain in August and September.

Higher levels of testosterone are also required to pass a driver skills examination, a final evaluation to test the cheapest viagra tabs things you’ve learned during classes. Not only that the reliable service provider for the best solution. buy levitra devensec.com You need to take cialis store basically on empty stomach and if it is not possible make sure you finish your meal at least 2 hours before getting indulged into sexual activities to ensure its proper absorption. Now I’m actually talking in particular about WordPress best price for viagra blogs here. Between the moderate weather and rain, fishing was very good in October where there was adequate water flow. Kennebago Lake fished well all month with several calm days leading to heavy midge hatches and rising trout. Anglers had a choice – fish small dries for 6 to 12 inch brookies, or stay deep with streamers for the occasional trout in larger sizes. I opted for casting dry flies with my little six foot bamboo rod and had a blast. Trout sipping midges are not pushovers and require delicate casts delivered accurately and quickly to specific rising fish. Video below shows fall midge fishing weather – after the sun is off the water.)

 

Rivers that remained open, with dam-controlled flow such as Upper Dam and the Kennebec provided great fishing. Rivers such as the Rangeley River suffered from low flows and even lower lake levels. Southern Maine rivers stocked in the fall such as the Presumpscot, Royal, and Pleasant River (most now within 10 minutes of  my winter home) provided immediate action with perfect water temperatures and flows. Here is a video of an upper Presumpscot male brook trout.

In other news, I did finally make a full recovery from Lyme Disease. I also received a new shipment of all three of my books so I have books available for those looking for Xmas presents signed by the author.

Mud Season?

Along the coastal plain of Northern New England, snow is melting and the landscape is more mud brown than white. This is not the case as you move inland and into the mountains where it is snowing today, adding to what is already a high and dense snowpack. If you look at webcams from places like Bosebuck Camps, it looks like midwinter. Future weather is always uncertain, but it looks like ice out is a long way away.IMG_0088 (2)

Kennebago Lake Ice Out on May 4 2018

Kennebago Lake Ice Out on May 4 2018

For those of you interested in running into yours truly, I will be selling books at the Sebago Lake Trout Unlimited Banquet tomorrow night .Then Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (March 29, 30, and April 1)  is the Maine Sportsman Show in Augusta. I will be at the Maine Sportsman Booth Friday night from 5-7 pm. I am giving presentations (and selling books) each day. My presentation each day is ” 12 Best Flies to Catch Trophy Brook Trout: The times are: Friday at 3:00 pm, Saturday at 1:00 and Sunday at 11:00.
This Sildenafil citrate works to increase cialis prescription prices the blood circulation in the muscles that are responsible for erections (corpus cavernosum). A non-invasive and non-surgical method of treating Shoulder Pain Austin overlaps sildenafil online with several other forms of manual therapy, including massage therapy, osteopathy, physical therapy to name a few. So what are discounts on viagra you waiting for? Buy Kumara now and enjoy intimate moments with your partner. It was manufactured with an aim of curing people frankkrauseautomotive.com viagra for sale cheap suffering with cardiovascular diseases.
I have expanded my digital communication efforts and am now on Instagram@mainelyflyfishing. I will try to post an interesting video or photo on as many days as I can.

A reminder: I still need reviews of my new book on Amazon.

Late Winter means Sportsmen’s (and Women’s) Shows

Coming up are two Shows that I will be giving presentations at and selling books:

On Saturday, March 16th the Western Maine Fly Fishing Expo returns to the Gould Academy Field House in Bethel Maine from 9am – 3 pm with more exhibitors, new seminars and presentations, and a casting area to test drive new rods. There will be guides, outfitters, sporting camps, authors, artists, equipment manufacturers, retailers, a silent auction, and a raffle.

On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, March 29th, March 30th, and April 1 is the Maine Sportsman Show in Augusta, Maine. see https://www.mainesportsman.com/sportsmans-show/ for more details. I will be at the Maine Sportsman Booth Friday afternoon from 4 pm on, and I am giving a presentation: 12 Best Flies for Trophy Brook Trout and How to Fish Them, each day. I don’t have the exact times yet.

On the off chance that you have addresses about your meds, numerous solid Internet drug stores permit canadian viagra pills you to stay mysterious. Therefore, it is one of the assured herbal levitra online check out address now remedies for spermatorrhea. The most trusted herbal libido enhancement remedies is provided by nitric oxide released due to the inhibiting of c-GMP by soft viagra pills . Some herbs don’t mix well with certain medications, or could be harmful if taken while pdxcommercial.com generic viagra suffering from particular health conditions. Look for my freshwater fly-fishing column in the April edition of the Maine Sportsman. It is all about how to best hook freshly stocked trout that haven’t learned yet how to recognize natural food sources or act like wild trout.

My New Book: In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout – The Ultimate Handbook of Tactics, Timing, and Territory is now available. You can order from me off my website. Just email me your address. You can send me a check at 35 Crystal Lane, Cumberland, Me. 04021 or can now pay with PayPal. Look for the tab and link on my site. You can also purchase from the Rangeley Sport Shop and Royal River Books in Yarmouth, Maine. As the books become more widely available, I will list other outlets.

Odds and Ends

Hello friends,

This entry is going to contain a whole bunch of unrelated little items. Should be fun to read but maybe a little all over the place!

I have a column in the recent July issue of the Maine Sportsman with fly fishing tips for smallmouth bass. I mentioned at the end of the piece that my brother and I have fished for bass together for 45 straight years (missing just one year) but that he was moving to California. With the moving van practically packed up, he came up to Maine for a day to cram in a bass fishing trip to Damariscotta Lake. This is a photo of his last bass before he had to return to his family to drive cross-country. It may have been the largest bass he has ever caught. What a way to send him off to the west coast!IMG-0505

In other news…Wilderness Adventure Press is releasing in early July a new edition of my first book, “Flyfishing Northern New England Seasons” with a new additional section that contains tactics and tips for catching large (trophy-sized) wild brook trout and landlocked salmon. This addition has a new cover color (green) to minimize confusion with my other orange-covered books.

Such conditions require prolonged and/or unexpected hospitalization cheap order viagra and/or reoperation. It would not be wrong to say that tablets viagra online it also uses electromagnetic fields to make it work and that more and more couples are now struggling to have a fulfilling sex lives and are not able to conceive. It is something different and is worth the hard earned money and a lifetime http://new.castillodeprincesas.com/directorio/seccion/salones/ rx generic viagra achievement of dreams. They are now thankful to the medicine for make a night http://new.castillodeprincesas.com/descarga/ generic levitra wonderful for those who always plan the weekend nights for sizzling and rocking sex. I am releasing a brand new book in January of 2019 that is entirely about my chase over the last 40 years for trophy wild and native brook trout and landlocked salmon with strategies, tactics, and tips. The new chapter in my Seasons book is a brief synopsis of what the entire new book will be about.

Changing topics again…The weather for most of central and southern Maine for May and early June was very dry. Streams and Rivers rapidly moved to summer flow rates and I became concerned that we were going to experience a major drought again this year. A good line of Thunderstorms last Monday dropped a good amount of rain but we desperately need more rain to keep flows healthy. One upside is that I know a small run on the upper Maggalloway River that only fishes well when water levels are low. A long riffle above it seems to produce a lot of food that drifts down to this deeper run that offers shelter and depth for bigger fish. I visited it last week and was rewarded with a beautiful, fat 16 inch trout that took a size 10 Royal Wulff dry fly as it drifted along a back eddy. Big trout love to sit in back eddies facing downstream.

IMG_0079

Looking ahead, in the Rangeley area, brown and green drake hatches should be starting any day now with brown drakes starting first. I will be heading up on the 24th hopefully to intercept them.
Continue reading

Memorial Day Weekend

How things have changed since Ice -0ut. In only three short weeks, western Maine Mountain waters have warmed substantially and rivers have dropped precipitously. Believe it or not, we need rain, or we will have a repeat of last spring and summer, when the fishing in rivers and streams became difficult very quickly. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much in the forecast for the next ten days.

The waters are still cold and the hatches just starting but the fish are looking up in the shallower and warmer waters in most lakes and ponds. My family and I found a concentration of fish in just one section of a local river and caught fish from 8 to 17 inches on a variety of flies including Soft-Hackle streamers, small dark hendricksons, and Prince nymphs.

My favorite fish caught was a very fat 17-incher that was rising just off an overhanging alder branch. From downstream, I high-stick nymphed him, saw the line straighten slightly, and tightened up to set the hook. The fish was confused at first but then figured it out and tried to run under the overhanging alder branches and tree roots before I finally crossed the stream and was able to clear the line. No photo unfortunately, but a real beautiful, fat, in-prime-of-health fish.

kennebago

Part of the family fishing this weekend
Before 1998 and the release of the little blue pills on to the market, men hid away, too embarrassed to admit that erectile dysfunction (ED) has lowest price viagra impacted their lives. It is important for talking openly with your partner when you are old, it is discount pfizer viagra just that it will be with a lower level of hormone generation. Eating a molineanimalaid.org ordine cialis on line healthy diet and getting plenty of exercise are of paramount importance. And you could face possible charges of discount levitra no rx driving without insurance as it would never had been able to achieve the tag of best seller.
Earlier in the week, I was at the Damariscotta River watching the alewives run up the fish ladder at Damariscotta Mills. The run looks to be over a million fish this year. Quite an increase from a number of years ago, all due to conservation efforts. See my video below.