Hot Weather, Cold Weather, Drought, Flooding: What’s happening

To say that the weather has been unpredictable over the last three weeks would be a bland understatement. I have been fishing in Rangeley, the Deboullie Mountain area in northern Maine, West-Central Vermont, and southern Maine, I have experienced 90’s in northern Maine that never see those temperatures. I have woken up to temps. in the lower 40’s. I have fished rivers so low that they looked like they did during the drought of late last summer, and fished in rising waters that threatened to wash me away. This is not exactly a shocker, but the fishing during this time has been all over the place – crazy good or horrendous. For example….

In late June, the fishing on Kennebago River below the Dam was really slow for big fish. Even Grant’s Camps newsletter said that the big fish were few and far between. The river was low, at mid-summer level, so the salmon hadn’t migrated in from the lake. Then we got a little rain and had two really cold nights – mid 40’s by morning. I decided to try the river during the middle of the day – bright sunshine – and saw not a single rise in my favorite pool. No one else was fishing the river because the biting insects were persistent and the lake was experiencing the annual brown drake hatch. I had the river to myself, but so what.

Boy, did things change in a hurry, when I started prospecting by high-stick nymphing or swinging a wet fly through some of my favorite runs. Without getting into excrutiating details, the fishing started so hot that I stopped, went and got my wife, returned with her and we both continued fishing. Three hours later, when we stopped fishing, together we had landed 25 good-sized salmon and a few wallhanger trout. The only explanation I can come with is that the rain brought some fish into the river and they all moved together in one school and moved rapidly up river to where cooler water was coming in that had been exposed to the cold night air. Since, insect activity was minimal, they were hungry and in feeding mode, and hadn’t seen a fly. It is the best fishing on the Kennebago we have ever had. A picture is worth a thousand words so …

my wife, Lindsey with a strong-looking salmon

my wife, Lindsey with a strong-looking salmon

four pound plus, 23 inch female brook trout

four pound plus, 23 inch female brook trout


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In early July at Red River Camps in the Deboullie Mountains it was either way to hot to fish (surface water temps. in the 80’s) or too windy (when temps dropped from 93 to 43 in 36 hours) so I practiced photography instead..

Red River Camps Boat House

Red River Camps Boat House

Red River Camps

Red River Camps

Exploring remote pond

Exploring remote pond

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