Fall 2021 Fishing Report

I do apologize for the lengthy interval between blog posts but that’s what happens when I go to Florida for grandfather duty with a two year old and all hell breaks loose for a month! I do post to Instagram at least several times a week, and that is a good resource to keep up in real time with what is going on: @mainelyflyfishing.com

End September/ beginning October: The last few days of the official season yielded a few last nice fish moving up river on their way to spawn and then I was hurrying back to my winter house in Windham on the Presumpscot River to pack and get ready to drive to Florida for the month to assist my daughter. I do like landlocked salmon fishing the last few days of the season on the Kennebago River with friends and family.. Click on the links to see videos and then click on back arrow at top left of screen to return to blog.https://youtu.be/H6kwsr0e3Ik

The upper river can get crowded with anglers vying for pre-spawn brook trout. I avoid the crowds and fool jaded fish by fishing pre-light in the early morning. Trout that are tough to fool during daylight, hammer big surface flies in the dark.

A big brook trout heading back into the water. Time of photo? 5:52 AM. Sunrise? 6:36
My two go-to flies for night brook trout fishing.

Once in Windham, I did manage to make it to the Pleasant River to cast for brown trout who might be in ornery pre-spawn mode. I cast my favorite Cosohammer soft-hackle streamer but in a yellow and brown coloration and I had a chance at a few nice fish, but missed one strike and broke a bigger one off on a bad knot. I eventually caught one beautiful brownie as a consolation prize.

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October featured unseasonably warm weather and no frost in most spots. Regular rain in the form of a few big rainstorms continued to increase river flow to more normal levels. Lakes and ponds in Maine that remained open yielded very nice fish including warmwater species such as pike and bass as they put on the ol’ feedbag in preparation for winter and because water temperatures remained in the upper 50’s if not warmer. I had a friend who caught a 5 1/2 pound largemouth in a local pond in Windham, his personal best.

Western Maine, surprisingly, remained in a drought. They got some rain for sure, but dry surface soils and a still-depleted ground water levels mitigated the precipitation. A well-known spring outside of Oquossoc on Rte. 16 was still running at about ¼ usual flow, even in early November. Kennebago Lake and River are still at very low levels as I write this.

Massachusetts had an overabundance of rain this summer and fall but levels were fairly normal in early October when I got to go on a float trip with my daughter, Mary, on the Deerfield River with Brian, owner of Pheasant Tail Tours. We had great fun on a beautiful fall day.https://youtu.be/lqOuRkt5poo

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