I guess people like to read about the local southern Maine fishing because I neglected to post about it and several have written me to ask. So here is a summary of May and June southwest Maine fishing.

In southern Maine,  observing the local flora will tell you when the good fishing is going to start. When the Coltsfoot are blooming and the Trillium are out of the ground, the first consistent fishing of the season begins, along with the early mayfly emergences.

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I always fish my local rivers first; Collyer Brook, Pleasant River, Presumpscot River, and the Little Andro,  and occasionally,  Chandler Brook, Royal River, Piscataqua River, Merriland River, and Stevens Brook thrown in for good measure

Nice riffle and run on Collyer Brook

It dawned on me on April 24th as I headed for Collyer Brook that this was exactly the 35 year I had fished it. Impossible to believe. Really. It was the second stream I had fished after my first experience with fly  fishing in 1985.

I usually only fish Collyer several times in April or early May before I switch to the Rangeley area, so in all those years, I have only fished it perhaps a total of 70 times. I will bet you too that I have only been skunked once or twice in all of that time. I usually catch one or two trout – often freshly stocked, sometimes holdovers, a few stocked by the local school kids as fingerlings, and  even a wild one or two.

This trip was no different as I caught two holdovers in a deep pool on a part of the stream that gets less fishing pressure. The pattern?  A Wood Special.

First brook trout of the year in southern Maine.

A day or two later, one of my favorite sections of the Pleasant River yielded several stocked brookies and two wild ones. Several weeks later, downstream, I landed a nice brown. Click on this link for a releast video.

https://youtu.be/cjmSDIFqJl0

The upper Royal River yielded a surprising wild fish that was either a small salmon or a rainbow trout – which makes any sense, since neither species live in that river, as far as anyone knows. Any guesses, based on this photo?

The tailwater below North Gorham Pond (the inlet to Dundee Pond) yielded salmon and brook trout to my daughter, Mary, and her boyfriend, Will, but none to me. Will caught a beast of a brown trout below one of the Presumpscot River dams.

On 5X tippet , nymphing. This fish took him several hundred feet downstream before he landed it.

T go to the Little Androscoggin every spring for my annual rainbow fix. When I arrived on May 27th, the water was already low, but fishable. Small browns were rising regularly to tiny stuff but I wanted rainbows. I caught a few on wood special streamers and caught a number more high-stick nymphing. as well as using a strike indicator. They were picky but persistance paid off.