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Fishing picks up in June, but so do the black flies

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It is mid-June, the middle of spring fly fishing season and the middle of black fly and mosquito season as well. The black flies really came out last week in the Kennebago area. If you were not protected, you got chomped on.

During early June, the Rangeley River fished well with a variety of fish falling for dry flies and nymphs, but as the days wore on, the fish were pounded and seemed to get smaller and smaller.

Fishing turned on at Kennebago Lake with a variety of fish sizes rising in the evening to assorted mayflies, caddis, and whatever else the wind blew in. On June 2, at the conclusion of a very warm and still day, the large carpenter ants had their first winged mating swarm day of the year – what some fisherman call a flying ant hatch. Those winged large ants falling in the lake and river really got the large fish up and rising quickly. I was guiding on the upper river at the bridge and a slow day turned into a good day as a number of large trout appeared as if from nowhere and starting taking ants off the surface (and similar artificial flies). Later on Kennebago Lake, a concentration of ants meant that two other anglers in a boat and I in my kayak landed 8 trout over 14 inches between us – (mostly them unfortunately as I missed a few and broke off a few) My largest was a full 18 inches. What fun.
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Unfortunately, for whatever reason, significant numbers of salmon have not run up the Kennebago River this spring. Not the correct combination of high water and ideal temperature I guess. Maybe a heavy rain will get them moving and salvage the season. With all of the cold and ice, not too many fish overwintered in the river either. Some of the lower pools have definitely changed with the heavy ice, as certain large boulders and in different places and parts of pools have filled in.

My schedule is fully booked for the rest of June and my first guiding openings will be in July. I still have opening for my advanced fly fishing class on June 28th.

Back from the book tour with ice-out prediction, new fly fishing classes

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I have lots of information to share in this blog. First of all, I am going to make my first ice-out prediction – ice-out will be late this year, possibly later than it has been for over ten years. I am guessing later than May 7. Last week someone sampled the ice on Little Kennebago Lake and found it over three feet thick.

With cold temperatures this winter and not a huge amount of snow to insulate the ice, the ice is really thick and will take longer to melt given normal spring conditions.

I am back from my travels to various fly fishing shows and trout unlimited meetings, giving presentations and signing books. It was a lot of fun connecting with many eager fly fishers, as well as fellow authors.


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I am adding a guiding calendar this year so people can see what days I have open for guiding. Look for it on my site. Right now I am open May 10,11,12,14,15,16,18,19, 21,22, 29, 30, 31 and June 1-4, 15-27. July is wide open at this point.

I would like to announce that this year, in addition to standard guiding days, I will be offering one-day fly fishing instructional classes based on strategies and tactics outlined in my book, “Fly-fishing the Seasons of Northern New England”. The day will consist of eight hours – two hours of streamer tactics, two hours of dry fly instruction, two hours of nymphing lessons, and two hours of specialized tactics (micropatterns and other approaches). While we will be trying to catch fish, the emphasize will be on instruction.

Location will be the Rangeley area (specifics depend on season and where people are staying). The class size will be 3-5 people and cost $125 per person. I will do a class of 2 but the cost will be $150 each. If you let me know your preferred dates, I will try to put appropriate sized classes together.

August Action

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Perhaps as a make-up for the lousy weather, high water, and challenging fishing during much of May, June, and even July, the fishing in August was the best that I can remember. Rangeley rivers fished well with certain pools holding a concentration of salmon and trout. Many lake fish ascended the rivers during the flushes of water from the rain and then when the water warmed into the low 70’s, they holed up near incoming cooler tribs. Colder nights in early August returned the water temps into the mid to high sixties and the fish went on a feeding spree.
Kennebago Lake fished well because hatches were late and spread out and the water stayed cool enough for fish to stay in the shallows and feed instead of decending to the thermoclines. It was ironic that with most of the anglers gone, a few lucky anglers had a number of summer evenings where they could cast to rising fish without any other boat nearby.
The lower Magalloway below the dam continued to fish well with many smaller fish falling to nymphs and dries and the occasional monster caught with big streamers or nymphs.
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(Sorry for the delay in posting this – I thought it had posted several weeks ago)