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Czech-ing in on N.Y. steelhead fishing; Lou’s new book released

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This beautiful steelhead was caught in upstate New York using a Czech nymphing technique.

This November I did a bit of traveling and did not fish as much as I normally would in Maine. I did hit the Presumpscot River one morning and nymphed up a couple brown trout.

I then spent four days fishing for steelhead in upstate New York on the Canadaway River. The weather was cold but the fish were there and willing, off and on. Most of the fish were caught on a pink plastic bead (egg imitation) fished under a strike indicator. Others were caught Czech nymphing style on a two fly rig – the point fly was a pink foam egg and the dropper was a black soft-hackle leech imitation. The beautiful fish in the picture was hooked Czech nymphing and took the pink foam egg (with 5x tippet).

The Steelhead were quite active and I did a fair amount of following them downstream (and sometimes upstream) in order to land them. It helps to have a large net. Sometimes though I had no net and had to hand land them.
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My recent book “Flyfishing Northern New England’s Seasons” is now available on Amazon in digital form with the paperback available in a few weeks. This is a how-to book on how to optimally fish each season in northern New England. It is also available with my personal signature directly from me. E-mail me and I will send you all of the specifics. Other retailers will be selling it and I will let you know when I know.

I will be giving presentations based on the book throughout New England this winter as well. I will be at the Flyfishing Show in Marlborough, Mass. On January 17,18, and 10. Also at the Sebago Lake Chapter of Trout Unlimited on January 24th

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October features slow fishing, great weather

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Early October continued the trend of warm and dry weather. Rivers and streams remained low and with bright, sunny, and warm conditions, the fish were spooky. One day at Upper Dam, as a client drifted a streamer over a sunken log, I could see a number of fish huddled in the shade under the log flash up and take a look at the fly before hurrying back to cover. The weather did make it glorious to be outside and the foliage was spectacular in places. There were fish to be had in the Rangeley River but one had to stalk them quietly in the low water and fish the smallest nymphs with a long leader.

I can’t really report much about the middle of the month because I was off to Montana for fishing The Big Hole, the Madison, and several creeks. You will be unable to wish away maladjustments, however you can surely see all the more about them, treat the manifestations and work through your deepest reasons for alarm and despondency. tadalafil order These male sex pills can increase libido, discount cialis prescriptions endurance and sex drive. Companies would then be a lot more careful how they treated their customers and the market would get an early warning that customers viagra france were being treated badly. Greatest plasma focus is deferred by up to an hour and ends its effect in viagra store in india 4 to 6 hours. Unlike Maine, the weather out there was 15 to 20 degrees below normal with spitting snow every day. Still, the unsettled days brought some pretty good hatches of midges and Baetis at times and we caught fish.
Further south, Inland Fish and Wildlife has stocked the upper Presumpscot and Royal Rivers with a variety of fish and once the fish get acclimated, fishing should be a lot of fun. I caught a nice brown this morning, nymphing on the Presumpscot. For information about this good fishing spot, see my column in the November issue of the Maine Sportsman.

Hot October Fishing

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I don’t know if it is due to global climate change or some other factor but October’s are definitely warmer than they used to be in Western Maine. I remember years ago October’s were pretty cold – low 20’s at night and low 40’s during the day. This year in October lows were routinely in the high 30’s and highs were in the 50’s – nice fishing weather, and the fish cooperated.
Fishing at Upper Dam was excellent this October, good weather and low water flows made the fish accessible and active. The last weekend of the month brought heavy caddis hatches and brought the fish up. Knowledgable anglers were having 20 fish afternoons. Even without a hatch, fish were concentrated in the moving water at the tail of the pool and were very catchable among the rocks with European nymphing techniques. A few were quite large. I had one very wide salmon on for a while – I got to see him quite well when he jumped head high just ten feet away from me – until I had to work around a rock to follow him downstream. One slight dip with the rod tip gave him a bit of slack, and he was gone.
Fishing in southern Maine also was good as Maine Fish and Wildlife continued stocking several local rivers and holdover fish started appearing again. The brown trout and brook trout the state stocks in the fall are large, healthy, and have very good quality fins and colors. I fished to rising browns in both the Pleasant and Royal rivers in October. On one foggy, drizzly, and warm afternoon a blue-winged olive hatch occurred on the Royal below the old mill, and it was fun trying to catch browns on top. I also just missed a very large fish (sea run brown) that boiled the water around my nymph as it ended its drift and was swinging to the surface.
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During the late fall/early winter season, I continue the patterns and tactics that I used in the fall. In many rivers and streams, although the brook trout spawning is probably completed, the landlocked salmon and brown trout spawning is still continuing and those species will aggressively attack colorful streamers. This is particularly true in rivers and streams that stay warmer. Any river flowing out of a large lake will stay warmer because it takes more cold days for the large volume of lake water to cool. Last year, the upper Presumpscott River that orginates from Sebago Lake had temperatures in the upper 40’s, with brown trout still spawning in late-November, even though there was snow on the ground. I guided two people on the Presumpscott last year on the day after Thanksgiving, and they both hooked salmon and trout while nymphing (red copper johns) and wet fly fishing (partridge and orange).