Please note: My next virtual presentation will be on November 10 to the Merrimack Valley chapter of Trout Unlimited. The subject will be my book, :In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout” and I will discuss locations, tactics, and patterns for you to catch your trout of a lifetime. Go to their website or contact Bob via email at bbbluhmmm1953@gmail.com and I am sure they will give you the zoom information so you can participate.

Now as for the fishing report for October….

Of course, the rain for which anglers were rain dancing and praying finally arrived the last day of fishing season in some parts of New England. It raised water levels and fresh fish moved into rivers and streams the first day the season was closed. Subsequent rain raised water levels significantly with certain areas receiving four inches of rain in one storm. Good for the ecosystem, not much help to anglers with many prime waters already closed.

October temperatures were seasonable with some cold snaps and the waters still open continued to fish well with water temps slowly falling through the upper 50’s into the mid to upper 40s (generally) by the end of the month. Trout and salmon stayed active. I even saw some trout still spawning in the Rangeley area on October 23^rd.

I didn’t get a lot of  New England fishing in because I spent three weeks in Florida. Returned home to snow (only five months since the last snow – not long enough!) But I did eke out a little angling time.

Did catch a nice bass or two in Florida

In my winter home in Windham, fished the Pleasant River, the last week of the season and saw lots of rising trout, both newly stocked and holdovers that survived the drought and heat. Dry flies or small nymphs raised smaller fish while bigger browns banged streamers that imitated the local bait fish. The streamers had to be drifted downstream naturally; normal retrieves were laughed at (in my imagination anyway). Hard to hook the bigger fish; they spit the fly so quick and it is difficult to keep a tight line when casting upstream

This section of Pleasant River is walkable from my house.

Cute little brown trout caught from my neighborhood stream

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Made it up to Kennebago Lake to close up camp for a few days and did catch some trout on the lake (open until end of October) on October 29^th under calm conditions and light to moderate snow.

                                                  End of October sunrise

                                 Last Kennebago trout for the year.

Also braved the crowd at Upper Dam one warmish Saturday (15 anglers) and managed to hook a half dozen salmon, probably by fishing flies they hadn’t seen from other anglers. Either high-stick nymphing or swinging size-18 pheasant tail nymphs, or casting Lou’s Brookie Sculpln streamer. Those of you who have read my book, “In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout”, may recall that this fly was specifically tied to attract the attention of big brook trout, but what do you know…good- size salmon crush it as well. Good to know.

My wife and I returned to upper Dam on the last day of the season it is open (Halloween). Cold (14 degrees at first light, warming to around freezing by 2 pm with water temps around 43. Again, many anglers, but still crushed the fish with the same flies I did the week before.

Small salmons nailed Lou’s Brookie Sculpin pattern.

Large salmon took the same fly. This old 4-pound salmon was missing part of a gill cover but he fought well with spectacular jumps. Photo doesn’t show it because of top down angle, but a very deep and fat fish.

For the month of November, I will probably try different parts of the Presumpscot River (open all year) or head to southeast New Hampshire to fish rivers such as Lamprey, Concheco, Isinglass, and Exeter. This waters continue to fish well in November and are stocked by the Three Rivers Stocking organization with quality large fish, supported by restrictive catch and release restrictions.

Stay safe everyone. At least a fly rod length away unless you are wearing a mask, Covid cases are rising rapidly, even in New England.

We are getting into the season of fly-fishing presentations and I am going to try a few via Zoom. The good news is anyone can attend if the local chapter gives you the invite. On Oct. 13 I am presenting to the Central New Jersey TU chapter. On Oct 21, the DownEast Maine Chapter is hosting a short presentation as well. I will provide more information shortly….

Here is a video of some of the beauty of fly-fishing Kennebago the last week of the season….
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Even with continued lower water levels (Some rivers in southern New England are running at just 10% of normal flow!), pre-spawn fish are moving. The cold nights of last week – lows in the upper 20’s – moved water temperatures low enough that fish were triggered to start pre-spawn activities and migration.

Trout and Salmon started moving upriver and holding in the deeper pools and runs and more staged in lake shallows near river outlets and inlets. Fresh fish were easy to catch, but things got difficult in a hurry with low and crystal clear water, low flows and bright sunny skies. Soon only the best anglers fishing fine tippets, drag-free drifts, or on the bottom were hooking fish regularly. But lucky anglers encountering fresh schools enjoyed fabulous fishing.

                                      Large Colored-up Male Brook Trout

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Enjoy the last few days of the traditional fishing season.

Hi folks,

Just a quick update today.  The weather has remained seasonably cold, windy, and dry so both the water temperatures and levels continue to fall. Evidence of this is the continuing wildfire warnings almost everyday for most of New England.

I have never seen river and stream flows lower. Obviously, rivers with dams are doing better as water is released from lakes and ponds. However, even that supply is limited. Just to give a few examples, last week, the lower Mags flows were briefly below 200. Roach Ponds are extremely low, Kennebago Lake is at it lower limits and the river is only marginally higher.

With wqter temps falling through the 50s into the upper 40s, a few fish are moving but are spooky with low water and flow and cloudless bright skies. Someone let me know that t-e Roach fished very well last week. I caught a gorgeous male 18-inch brook trout in full spawning colors on the Little Kennebago River. People fishing lakes and ponds like Tim Pond say it is the best fishing in years because the big trout are schooling in the shallows waiting to move upstream and are attacking big attractor dries.
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No rain is in the forecast for the rest of September so I don’t believe things will change dramatically although as the season progresses more fish will move regardless of the water level. To the degree they concentrate in the few pools with deep water, they will be susceptible to anglers. Please practice restraint and you nymphers, don’t snag. I refuse to fish those areas anymore – too much combat fishing.

Enjoy the colors…leaves are changing by the hour and with the drought are not staying on the trees long.

Lou

Hi Folks,

See my previous post for more details of the last month. This is more of a visual record. Follow me on Instagram @ mainelyflyfishing. To optimize your autumn fishing experience for big trout, check out my In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout book.

Despite the drought and heat of this summer – hottest summer ever in Portland by a whopping two degrees!, fish successfully held over in southern Maine’s rivers and streams. Here are a few nice brown trout taken in late August in a pretty small river/stream outside of Portland.

                                     Nice holdover brown from at least last year.

Early September, yielded some spectacular visuals; from early morning to early evening.

                      A sunset perhaps enhanced by smoke in the atmosphere

Evening in the Shadow of West Kennebago Mountain.

Due to the very low river levels, pre-spawn fish were staging in strange places. We took a number of very nice fish in early September in locations I call frog water.

Landing trout in what Floridians would call gator water.

                                                                   Lily Pad Brookie

This 20-incher took a dry in what some folks would call a swamp.

On Thursday, September 4th, people reported tiny flying ants carpeting the water all over the state. I can confirm from personal accounts, the Fish River system in Northern Maine, Damariscotta Lake on the Maine coast, Kennebago Lake in the western Maine mountains, and Dundee Pond in southern Maine. Here are some visuals.

A couple early landlocked salmon were being caught over Labor Weekend in pools where migrating fish found deeper water.

Long salmon caught by Will Folsum on a small dry fly in a deep pool on the Kennebago River.

Of course, cannot neglect the tragedy of the great white shark attack in Casco Bay and the continued sightings. This video from my sister’s friend taken from a boat trip in Casco Bay.

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.

Hi Everyone,

Mid-summer fly fishing morphs into a different pursuit, at least for me. Gone are the marathon sessions intercepting heavy hatches, or hitting arriving striper blitzes, or casting poppers for bass on their spawning beds or hooking good-size trout and salmon feeding in cool rivers and streams.

In mid-July the pace slows. Often, that means lake or pond fishing for only an hour or two around dusk, trying to find fish still looking up for Hex stragglers. Sometimes, I take a leisurely kayak trip through coastal waterways several hours before or after high tide and cast for schoolies. Or I hike into the mountains and  move leisurely up the headwaters, casting a three-weight and a small Royal Wulff, and hooking small native brookies. On hot evenings or foggy and muggy mornings, I might hop on my float tube and try to tempt big bass hanging tight under the lily pads.

It is really about enjoying the Maine summer, relaxing, relishing the disappearance of some of the worst of the biting insects, and catching a few fish along the way.

The Hex hatch has a long tail  (lasts a long time) in cold lakes, with a few continuing to hatch every day for a month. It is generally an evening event, and if you leisurely float a big dry, every so often a good fish will happen by and smack it.

To find cooler waters in summer’s heat I explore upstrearm.

Small stream brookies are hand-sized but fun to catch on light rods.

A good trout for a small mountain stream puts a bend in my cane rod.

When you see a spot like this on a tiny stream, you just know the biggest fish in that section will be right under that overhanging tree.

A nice brookie for a small stream in the middle of summer.

During July, during a rising or falling tide, I like to explore Scarborough Marsh in my kayak and find stripers willing to clobber a topwater popper or a Clouser.

Typical marsh striper. Even this size will tow your kayak.

Don’t forget to follow me on instagram @mainelyflyfishing and check out my books on this website. Stay safe everybody. Lou

What a difference a week makes. After no rain for weeks and weeks, a stationary low-pressure system and lots of humid air resulted in a deluge. At my Windham residence, we received 2.5 inches of rain Sunday night, June 28^th; followed by another 2.5 inches on my birthday, June 29^th; followed by another 2 inches of rain over the next few days; followed by more rain on July 2^nd. We obviously received similar or greater amounts in Rangeley, since when I arrived a few days ago, my dock was awash, the lake level was in the bushes, and the rivers were in full flood. Still, I am thrilled to be relieved of my watering duty by Mother Nature. Keeping my perennial beds and vegetables moisturized was getting to be a full-time job.

I hate to keep beating on the same drum, but this is exactly what the climate change models predict – more periods of drought interrupted by huge rainfall events. Not good for the fish.

Brown drakes emerged on Kennebago Lake during the last week of June, and Lindsey and I hit pieces of it, somewhat hampered by our schedule and a couple windy days.

Lindsey did hook and land the largest salmon I have ever seen caught on Kennebago Lake. We were cruising down the middle of the lake when I spotted a boil, watched the tail of a big fish descending back into the depths, cut the engine, and then swung the boat around. Lindsey took a guess as to what direction the fish was heading and made a snap cast with a size-10 Quigley Green Drake Cripple (one of my favorite flies). A good fish (the same fish?) took the fly with aggression and jumped immediately after Lindsey tightened up. We watched a big salmon who was level with our heads as we sat in the boat, fall back into the water about ten feet away from us, and then jump again.

Eventually, he was netted, and quickly released. A hand measure (the span of my hand is actually 10 inches) showed him to be over 20 inches and well over three pounds, maybe 4. Kennebago doesn’t usually produce hefty salmon so this fish was exceptional.

Lindsey’s big Salmon during the brown drake hatch

Anytime the winds calmed, we found sporadic emergences of drakes and rising trout and salmon. Most were in the 12-inch range with  a few larger fish mixed in. We were always on the look out for shucks in the water…
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Before the rain, when the lower Kennebago River was flowing at summer levels, I know a spot where the trout and salmon that winter over in the river hang out as the water lowers and warms. At some point, they give it up and run down the river into the Cupsuptic arm of Mooselookmeguntic lake, but I caught up with them before they left. When fish are concentrated and the current is at the proper flow (not too slow or too fast), high stick (Czech/tight line nymphing) can be deadly and it was for me one day with a number of good-sized salmon and trout landed.

As is usually the case, the holdover trout were fat and healthy, and the holdover landlocked salmon were skinny and looked in need of a good meal.

The upper Kennebago’s flow diminished and with endless days of cloudless skies, you could see every pebble on the bottom. The bigger fish stayed tucked right against undercut banks or other cover. I managed to tease a nice fish out by drifting a nymph without an indicator inches from an undercut bank.

With the big rain event, all the rivers are in flood at the end of the month and finally starting to recede on July 4^th. Once the flood water subside, it will be interesting to see if the increased flows bring fresh fish into the rivers. As the brown drake hatch peters out, I will also be on the lookout for green drakes and hexes.

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram @mainelyflyfishing. And don’t forget to check out my books on this website. I welcome emails asking questions about where to fly fish or seeking other information. I answer everyone, but often, I end up saying, “the best and most complete information is in Flyfisher’s Guide to New England” , and they buy the book and email me later about how helpful it is. For each region of New England, I offer recommended weekend and week long trips.

Stay safe.

June in the Northeast U.S. brought us dramatic temperature swings and virtually no rain or even significant cloud cover. Certain days, even in the mountains, were well into the 80s and then 36 hours later were in the 30s. By late June, lake surface water temperatures were very high for this time of year. On June 23rd, surface water temperatures on Kennebago Lake was 76 degrees.

With little rain, rivers went from high and cold – because of a cold spring with late mountain snowmelt – , to low and warm, in less than three weeks. Some areas are very dry. In Windham, Maine, from May 2 to June 24, we received less than a quarter of an inch of precipitation.

The river and stream trout fishing held up very well until late June because of some cold nights. During the last week of June, temperatures rose to the point where the better coldwater fish disappeared or became less active.

People report to me that good early Mayfly and caddis fly hatches occurred  throughout June in many areas and lucky anglers that were in the right place at the right time did well.

We started to see drakes emerge in the western Maine mountains around June 22nd and I am sure other areas have seen them for awhile. I expect the Rangeley area will see good large mayfly hatches through early July.

I am hearing reports of consistent fishing for stripers and even shad, although I haven’t had a chance to try for those species myself as of yet.

Personally, my New England fishing season was interrupted when my wife and I took a car trip to Florida to spend three weeks with our new grandson. I have only spent a few days in the Rangeley area but had good salmonid fishing when I was there. I had some time in my home in Windham and continued to explore the Presumpscot River.

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This largemouth had no problem engulfing my flypopper.

I am usually fishing for smallies but don’t mind big largemouth.

I continue to find that several rivers in southern Maine offer very good rainbow and brown trout fishing for holdover fish between 12 and 16 inches.  These are not stocked at this size but are stocked smaller and hold over several years and grow fat and happy. They find enough cold water during the summer months to survive.

16-inch brown trout fooled during a healthy caddis hatch.

Beautiful rainbow from a river that isn’t supposed to harbor any.

Stay safe everyone.

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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