November Fishing Report

Most of November featured many warm and sunny days and die-hard anglers took advantage of warmer-than-usual water temps and active fish. We did have some good rainstorms throughout most of New England so certain rivers ran too high to fish for a time, but usually at least some waters were fishable on any given day.

Anglers did well on waters with fall stockings as well as southern Maine lakes and ponds that have holdover fish who become active in the fall. I saw some nice photos of rainbows coming out of the Range Ponds.

Since I missed most of October due to my Florida trip, I wasted no time in early November, hitting some of my favorite fall spots that I hadn’t had a chance to fish.

I braved the crowds at Rte. 35 Bridge on the Presumpscot River by getting to my favorite run early in the morning, only t0 have two guys come in and start fishing just twenty feet downstream from me. It’s to be expected at this particular location. I still caught some hard-fighting trout including a brown trout that had been a resident for most of the year, and a brook trout that weighed several pounds.

I caught a few nymphing with a size 20 white midge with silver highlights. The big brookie came up through heavy water to nail a white Cosohammer streamer. I missed him the first time, but with good polarizing glasses, I watched for him to come up again and timed my strike better.

My favorite Presumpscot River run

Any brook trout caught in November is a bonus

I always try to head south to the Durham/Exeter area of NH to fish the rivers because of the fall stockings by the Three River Stocking Association and the special regulations. They do such a nice job of managing the resource and putting in very high quality, large rainbows and other trout species from a private hatchery. I sell a booklet (Flyfishing NH’s Seacoast) on this website that is an excellent information source for where and how to fish the four coastal NH rivers that are stocked and managed in the fall.

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I don’t get a chance to fish for rainbows too often, so I went down to the Exeter River on a record-breaking warm day with temps in the upper 60s. The river is small and fun to fish with many side channels, pockets, and deep runs. I didn’t have much success until I tried the tail out of a large complex pool. I was high stick nymphing in about three feet off water with a tungsten beadhead stonefly and an unweighted small pink egg. A number of chunky rainbows gobbled the egg as it drifted by them. One bigger fish took me down below the tail of the pool and I had to chase it a bit downstream before landing it.

The Exeter River, mostly pocket water here, but you can see the channel splitting downstream.
A beautifully colored rainbow comes to hand with pink egg on shortshank egg hook firmly in corner of its jaw.
The rainbows fought hard in the 45-degree water.

I also tried the inlet to North Gorham Pond in Windham and the Mousam in Kennebuck to less success, although a big brown in the latter water broke me off and I lost a smaller brown as well.

The Mousam downstream from Rogers Park.

Hopefully, I might even get out in early December once or twice if we get a warm spell. Tight lines, everyone.

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