Weather Report: It certainly has been a strange winter. Between fairly regular snowstorms has been mild temperatures with highs above freezing and well into the 40’s and even 50’s in southern and central Maine. Add in a few rainstorms and the snowpack is non-existent even in the mountains. In southern Maine, we have green grass with patches of ice and snow.
Lakes and ponds have frozen, melted, and refrozen several times and shorelines often are unfrozen because of heavy run-off, making it tricky for ice anglers, ice skaters, and snowmobilers.
Upcoming Presentations: This is the height of the fly-fishing event season and I am giving presentations a dozen times over the next few months. For a complete listing of where I will be appearing, click on the Speaking and Presentation tab at the top of this website. All events welcome visitors, so stop by and say hi and be entertained by my video and photography.
Florida Trip: I did escape to Florida to visit my daughter, Erika, and new grandson, Noah. They just bought a new house on a small lake and have a small kayak, so I had to explore with my fly rod to see what might be swimming around.
Does anyone recognize the species of fish I caught? It is a Bowfin what took a white (with blue highlights) CoSoHammer (conehead marabou soft-hackle) streamer. These fish have huge mouths, you can hardly see the white CoSoHammer streamer he took.
I also caught some big crappie up to 14 inches long on small black leech patterns and even panfish poppers.
Of course, a Florida lake fishing excursion wouldn’t be complete with landing a few big largemouth bass on surface flies.
A few days later, my son-in-law, Brian, landed a Bowfin of his own.
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