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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.

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

Late September Maine Fishing Report

A few days remain in the season for some waters, while other locales offer extended seasonal opportunities. I strongly suggest playing hooky and abandoning all other responsibilities and get out fishing. Rain has come to all areas of Maine and flows are good. For some rivers, this is the first time they have been at normal flows since April, and the first time September flows have been normal in several years. So get out there.

I have been hopscotching around: both Kennebago Rivers, the Diamond Rivers in the Dartmouth Grant, N.H.’s Wild River, the Mags, the Roach and East Outlet of the Kennebec, to be more specific. I can’t say the fishing was easy, but persistence and changing approaches when required has yielded some good fish.

Releasing a nice trout from the upper Dead Diamond River on another hot September day.
A released Wild River brown trout resting a slow current.
This is my largest brook trout of the year and came from the Roach River. I didn’t want to take it out of the water but I am unhooking my fly from the corner of its jaw, and its tail goes past my leg. It was also very fat. 4 pounds maybe? The pattern you ask? Size 14 dark brown Klinkhammer, swung like a wet fly.

The average size of the salmon seem to be much bigger than normal this year. Doesn’t seem to be many of the skinny 14-inch variety, and a good number of 18-plus inchers.

Biggest landlocked salmon of the year, on a dry fly no less. Didn’t try to weigh or measure this big male, but somewhere north of 22 inches and four pounds.

The crowds on the rivers have been intense, but I can’t really blame anybody, no one has been able to fish some of these waters for months, and everyone seems in a good mood, just happy to get a line in some moving water.

A parking lot to one Little Kennebago Pool that holds at most three anglers but most often two.
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The weather has been unseasonably warm (along with the rain) and looks to continue to be that way. 35 years ago, fly fishing the last week of September on the upper Maggaloway River meant neoprene waders, down jackets and gloves. Water temps were in the 40s, air temps in the morning were below freezing, and the air might be spitting sleet and snow. I know that seems difficult to believe for you young-uns, but that is the way it was before climate change. The forecasted lows for the Rangeley area during the next week – first week of October – barely nudge below the upper 40’s. The change in seasons have moved at least three weeks later in the fall.

On the book front, my new 2021/2022 edition of Flyfisher’s Guide to New England has finally arrived and I am sending it out to stores and shops as fast as I can. You can also purchase from me directly. If you already own a copy, don’t feel like you have to rush out and purchase the new version. Overall, it has additional waters and some other updates, but not enough to warrant replacing.

In my In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout book, I discuss and give tying instructions for a number of patterns that I find very effective at hooking big brookies. One of these is the Lou’s Brookie Sculpin. Last week, I walked into The Warden’s Pool on the Roach River in late afternoon after it had been hammered by anglers all day. According to those leaving, success had been limited. Within the first few casts, a nice fat brook trout inhaled this pattern. Now, that sort of thing can happen with any pattern (to the dismay of anglers who are packing up to leave after a fruitless few hours on the same water), but this not the first time this has occurred with Lou’s Brookie Sculpin. Last year, I had a similar experience in October at Upper Dam.

A nice Roach River brook trout with Lou’s Brookie Sculpin in its mouth. See next photo for a close up of the fly.
You can see by the two eyes peering upward that this fly is tied with a sculpin head available now commercially. Search on Fish Skull to find them

As the official season winds down to it final days for native trout and salmon waters, I will leave you with an excerpt from my book, Flyfishing Northern New England Seasons,

On the last day I quit fishing for the last half hour before dark, even though fish may still be rising. I sit and watch the water, and reflect on the fishing season past and the fishing seasons still to come. It may be a long seven months until the ice breaks up and fishing begins again in earnest so I try to fix in my mind the good memories, long-time friends, and personal tranquility that fly fishing has brought me. During the winter I recall these mental snapshots. It helps me bridge the gap between seasons.

By then it is dark, so I gather up my gear and go home, to reacquaint myself with family and friends that haven’t seen much of me in the past month – but not without one last backward glance at the water, to see if the fish are still rising.

Mid September 2021 Report

I am just adding this quick report because I know so many are interested in what conditions are like in the waters of the Western Maine mountains (and elsewhere).

Waters have cooled into the low 60’s with the absence of hot weather and some rain. Rain has been of the hit or miss variety and while some areas have received several storms that dumped an inch of rain or more, locations just 30 miles away received next to nothing. The Kennebago watershed has somehow missed most of the rain and the river remains very low. The Diamond Rivers in the Dartmouth Grant got more rain and flow increased from 20 CFS to 100 in less that a day. before settling back to 75. The Mags was in between. The folks who monitor drought says the Rangeley Area needs over 12 inches of rain in the next few months to recover from drought conditions.

Lake levels remain either below normal or very below normal. This is now the 4th year out of five that we are in low water conditions during September. Is this the new normal, or just bad luck, given that the rest of the Northeast has basically been underwater for a month.

Trout and salmon are starting to move – either cruising the shallows waiting for increased flows to move up river, or starting to congregate in the deepest pools near lakes and ponds. Anglers are going to have to be careful not to stress the fish in the usual and well-known pools where they wait (and most of you know where these spots are in the Rangeley area). Many anglers are opting not to fish for trout and salmon under these conditions. I think that you can, if you obey the following rules:

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  1. Water temperature should be below 65.
  2. Don’t fish pools that are pounded by multiple anglers all day and the fish can’t move to other locations to escape pressure.
  3. Do not sight nymph where you can direct the nymph to hit the fish in the mouth or head. If the fish is not moving to your fly, you are snagging.
  4. If fish are concentrated and it is like shooting fish in a barrel, catch a few, and then move on.
  5. Fish barbless.

If we all follow these common sense solutions, the fish will be fine.

More to come soon…..

August fishing Report

Fall fishing is right around the corner, so of course, everyone is continuing to make plans for September and watching water levels closely. If you are a river angler, the higher the flow, and the earlier it runs, the better the fall fishing.

If you live in New York, Massachusetts, Central and Southern Vermont and New Hampshire, and south coastal Maine, you have plenty of river flow and perhaps, even too much. But the Western Maine mountains continue to be in a prolonged drought (for the entire summer), see map below representing conditions through August 14th. We need rain! But with several tropical systems moving through this week, we might just get it!

Speaking of fall fishing, My latest book, In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout, the Ultimate Handbook of Tactics, Timing, and Territory, is an excellent resource of where and how to fish at this time of year. You can purchase signed off this website for $ 26.00 and I also have a few “seconds” with slightly marked covers that I am selling for $ $ 14. Email me at louzambello@gmail.com and I will send you a photo of the cover and you can then purchase.

I actually haven’t been doing much fishing recently (from my perspective) and have been enjoying having time with four family generations. I have a few items to report on:

I do enjoy teaching new anglers the whys and wherefores of the sport. Here is a young lady enjoying the summertime bass fishing.

A week ago, my mother, sister and I celebrated 50 years on Damariscotta Lake at our family camp on the southern part of the lake. It was great fun reminiscing. Damariscotta is where I developed my love for fishing and my interest in smallmouth bass fishing with a fly rod. Of course, I found my way out to the water and caught a number of smallmouth and largemouth by fishing a popper around structure such as docks and logs. The fish were in a feeding mode because schools of young-of-the-year alewives were cruising the drop-offs and the bass were on them.

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Fortunately, I fished late Saturday and early Sunday and was off the water before a local bass tournament began. My quiet morning on the lake, with grassy-calm conditions and the occasional bass breaking the surface; and the cries of both a loon and a bald eagle were disrupted by half a dozen glittery bass boats roaring past me at 60 miles an hour driven by their 250 horsepower engines (I was in a kayak). Geez, the boat, engine and gear manufacturers have certainly done a great job convincing bass fisherman that they can’t possible catch good numbers of bass without $50,000 dollars of gear.

I think I caught as many bass as most of them in half the time, but again, I have decades of experience on this lake. Interestingly, when I started fishing here, it was a smallmouth lake only, largemouth were introduced later.

Striper fishing has continued to be good on the coast of Maine all summer but, of course, exactly where, when, how many, and what size varies from day to day. If you find yourself along the coast for work, pleasure, or some other reason, it always pays to have a fly rod in the car, just in case. My number one fishing rule is” Always have a fly rod with you!

Case in point, my daughter’s boyfriend, Will was driving over the bridge from Cousin’s Island after a meeting with a customer and noticed a commotion next to the bridge. He turned around, stopped, grabbed his fly rod, hit the beach, and caught a few very nice stripers including this one below.

I will post again soon, in the meantime, I am looking over my flies and seeing what I need to restock before September.

Late July Fly-fishing Report Update

Hi folks, I have a few little details to cover before I get started.

First of all, I added a April/May/June report for local southwest Maine rivers and streams with photos and video. It was posted in calendar sequence after my latest post, so if you missed it, scroll back.

Second, if you are on Instagram but not following me, you should, because I provide real-time fishing and related outdoor updates almost everyday. @mainelyflyfishing.com

Third, if you like stickers, check out the cool Maine outdoor stickers my daughter is selling, along with other outdoor related items. www. reclaimedsignco.com

Just a few of many stickers available. Also check out all of her merchandise at Cool As A Moose stores.

Fourth, my book, “Flyfisher’s Guide to New England” is pretty much out of stock everywhere. An updated edition is currently stuck on a boat somewhere on the West Coast waiting to be unloaded. Hopefully, back in stock by early September. In the meantime, you can upload an electronic Kindle version on Amazon, and LLBean and Trident Flyfishing might have a few left. Don’t forget my other books though. “In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout?” does outline all of the places that trophy brook trout can be found, along with technique and tactic information.

Fifth, I did a little guiding in June, mostly teaching fly-fishing beginners. For example, I took Thomas out to various spots on the Presumpscot River, and before we were done he landed his first trout on a fly and learned how to fish dry flies and the different approaches for nymph fishing. So much fun to watch someone hook their first few fish with new skills required.

Thomas with first trout. The brown took a pheasant tail nymph.

Now onto the update…..

July weather couldn’t have been more different than March, April, May, and June. Massachusetts saw flooding rain several days and certain locations broke July rainfall records. Western Massachusetts rivers were over their banks. Most of Northern New England received good rain as well. In Windham, Maine where I live part of the year, we had over 5 inches of rain. The western Maine mountains missed the early July rainstorms but did receive some decent rain later on. Flows did not increase significantly through mid July and remained low, but I hope they have improved since then. I haven’t been in the Rangeley area for several weeks so I need to get an updated report, but for most of New England, the drought is over.

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For most of July, with river flows ridiculously low, western Maine mountain fishing consisted of hitting the lakes and ponds or fishing the lower Mags, Upper Dam, or Middle Dam. Since hatches started early this year, they ended early as well, so sporadic Hexes and misc. caddis provided most of the action on lakes and ponds.

Drake hatches are frequently concurrent with Lupine blooming. When the Lupine are done, so are the major hatches.

We did catch many nice-sized brookies and salmon by fishing the thermocline with sinking line and streamers. We went out to drop-offs when it was windy. We cast full-sink lines with Cosohammer streamers, let them sink 20 feet or so, and then retrieved them halfway to the surface, before letting them sink again. We would do this several times until we cast again. Because of the wind drift, we covered new territory with every cast. Fishing was exactly fast, but several times an hour, we would feel the heavy thump of a good fish on the line.

You can catch nice trout in the middle of a bright summer day, but you have to go deep for them.

I saw good fish being caught at Upper Dam (usually by one angler who happened to be at the right place, at the right time, with a fly pattern that intrigued the salmon.} The flows were low below Azischos Dam so the fish couldn’t really hide from the anglers. Persistent anglers did well. On a family fishing trip, Will Folsum landed a 3 pound plus brook trout at Mailbox Pool on a small black nymph while the river was flowing at 750 during a weekend kayaker release.

With water low and warm throughout Maine, many switched to the salt in pursuit of stripers. I caught them randomly while doing other things. Caught a few kayaking Scarborough Marsh and a few after swimming of the dock at the Cumberland Town Beach. My buddy, Will, going over the Cousins Island Bridge, spotted out of the corner of his eye a school of stripes smashing bait on the surface, stopped his truck, pulled his bass rod out of the back, and caught a few nice ones.

Every year I kayak Scarborough Marsh for stripers
This might have been the smallest striper I have ever caught.

Brown Drakes! June Fly-fishing Report

Hellow everyone,

So much to cover, I might have to break this into several blog posts…

Book News

I will be at LLBean on Monday, July 12, in the evening signing books and chatting with folks. Beans is starting up a Monday night author/speaker series. I won’t be giving a presentation but chatting with folks, signing books, and will bring a bunch of interesting video on my computer at the table. Stop on by.

My Flyfishers Guide to New England is sold out virtually everywhere. The book is printed in Asia and there is a shipping delay. My new edition is due in mid to late July and is updated. I made some changes to reflect new information and added new water for the 2021 edition. The changes aren’t large, just a few, here and there.

I do still have copies I can sell and send out, You can see how on this website. I also believe Rangeley Sport (Flyfishing) Shop still has copies as does Evening Sun Fly Shop.

Windham Fishing

What a diversity of fishing within 15 minutes of my house. In one 24 hour period a week ago, I caught brown trout, brook trout, big sunfish, smallmouth, largemouth, pickerel, alewives (accidently), and stripers.

I didn’t know alewives took flies but the few I caught had the nymph in the corner of their jaw. They fight and jump like crazy for their size. As I said, I caught them accidently while nymphing for trout.
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Brown Drake Hatch

The brown drakes started emerging at least two weeks ago in the Western Maine Mountains, which by my calculations was at least 10, if not closer to 14 days early. It means people that plan their fishing vacations to coincide maybe disappointed when they arrive and it is already at the tail end of the hatch. The warm and dry spring has collapsed all of the hatches together. Last week, I saw good trout eating midges, while others were after early caddis, while salmon were attacking brown drakes. At the same time Hexes started to emerge from the Connecticut River in New Hampshire to the Presumpscot River system in Maine. Better bring all of your dry fly selections with you.

My family and I managed to hit the brown hatch just right for a few days when it was just starting – meaning the fish were still hungry and relatively naive. We had some epic fishing. One morning my wife landed 20 salmon between 14 and 18 inches. My daughter Mary and her boyfriend Will landed over thirty salmon and trout in one outing. One day I landed three trout over 18 inches on drake imitations.

Early on during the hatch, trout and salmon attacked almost any size 8, 10, or 12 mayfly imitation as it was stripped across the surface. Even a strange pattern such as the Kaufmann Royal Wulff Stimulator wacked the salmon.

As the hatched progressed, the fish became pickier. When my wife caught all of those salmon, she was fishing a Quigley’s drake cripple size 10 but tied small. A regular size 10 and a regular size 12 took a few fish but not many. The trout and salmon wanted a size in between.  Her one fly lasted for all of those fish until finally one broke her off. A new emerger pattern floated too high to interest the fish, After taking a bunch of fish, a pattern would start floating too low and the action stopped. The pattern had to float just in the film for success. Our floatant crystals got a big workout. As the fish got casting shy, it paid to leave the fly on the water for awhile before casting elsewhere. If it sat long enough, it would eventually trigger a strike if it was the correct size and silhouette.

The loons got to be a problem. Waiting for us to release the fish and then nabbing them. Our solution?  Play the fish quickly – landing them while they are still fresh. Landing the larger fish with a long handle, large-diameter boat net, removing the hook, and then releasing the fish on the opposite side of the boat from where the loon(s) were.  Loons don’t like to directly under the boat and the extra second or two gives the fish a better chance to escape. We revived our fish by cradling them with our hand underwater but inside the net. We waited until they were fully recovered before freeing them from the net, so they would swim away strongly and not be immediate loon food.

Here is a video showing a sampling of Brown Drake action on Kennebago Lake.

https://youtu.be/mCR74U4ZZiQ

Local Southwest Maine spring Fly-fishing Report

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.

My friend Will caught this big brown at one of the Presumpscot River tailwaters - on 5X tippet nymphing no less. Took him several hundred feet downstream until he landed it.

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.

 

 

A mystery wild fish
The Little Andro in Oxford Plains




I love to catch rainbows in Maine because they aren’t as widely available.

Memorial Day Report and Blog

A strong-for-this-time-of-year Nor’easter drenched much of New England this long weekend, but not much of it made it to the Western Maine Mountains. My rain gauge recorded 4/10 of an inch – enough to settle the dust, but that is about it. Rivers are very low with little flow and it makes fishing tough even though temps are good and hatches are occurring. Some larger rivers with steep gradients such as the Rapid , the Andro, or the lower Mags fish fine because they are more easily wadable and fish are more accessible and can’t hide in rough water

Southern parts of Maine and New England received a drenching of up to 4 inches or more and that should alleviate drought conditions for a while and return rivers to normal flows.

I have found decent-sized trout in all sorts of places but it has been unpredictable.

A lengthy trout came up for a Royal Coachman, a decent imitation of the smattering of small mayfly duns emerging or spinners flitting about.

A lengthy trout came up for a Royal Coachman, a decent imitation of the smattering of small mayfly duns emerging or spinners flitting about.

A nice trout fooled with difficulty in the slow-moving clear waters of low-flowing Little Kennebago River

A nice trout fooled with difficulty in the slow-moving clear waters of low-flowing Little Kennebago River. It fished over Memorial Day weekend like a Montana Spring Creek.

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A few odds and ends….Many anglers enjoyed the Sebago Trout Unlimited event at Dundee Park on May 22nd. About 40 attendees learned all about the Presumpscot River and its history and then were guided to different spots on the river. Despite low water a number of brook trout were hooked as well as a few brown trout and a salmon and anglers learned where to go in the future. Look for more events like this from Sebago TU going forward.

I snuck down to Florida for a quick visit with my daughter and I got to spend a few days fishing on the Gulf. Sight fishing for redfish and speckled sea trout was a little slow but I did manage to land  in just 2 1/2 feet of water a huge sea trout on a small topwater popper – a size down in Florida they call a gator trout . It was only a few inches off the world fly fishing record

This sea trout approached 30 inches and was so big, that I couldn't fit it in frame no matter how far I leaned back in my kayak.

This sea trout approached 30 inches and was so big, that I couldn’t fit it in frame no matter how far I leaned back in my kayak.

Of course, fishing the flats offers many rewards, even if the fishing is slow. Here is sunrise over the flats east of Cape San Blas

Of course, fishing the flats offers many rewards, even if the fishing is slow. Here is sunrise over the flats east of Cape San Blas

That is all for now. Enjoy peak fishing season, everyone. Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram for more frequent updates #mainelyflyfishing

Late May Report: Drought and Peak Spring Fishing

It is that time of year!  Trout and salmon are active and now rising to early hatches of mayflies and caddis. Bass and Pike are in the shallows defending nests or prowling for food. Stripers have arrived. So many fishing options and only so many hours in the day – although fishable hours  now range from 430 AM to 830 PM.

One concern is the continued drought conditions from the last few years. I thought late summer of 2019 was bad, but then summer and early fall 2020 was worse, and so far 2021 is very dry and droughty even in early May. What little snowpack we had melted early or sublimated directly into the atmosphere and very little rain has fallen in the last few weeks.

Rivers are at summer levels or worse and many lakes are so low folks are having trouble getting their docks in.  The Rangeley River this week was running at 20 cfm instead of the normal 300 cfm. The lower Mags was at 120 when sometimes this time of year is at 700. The ground, even in the deep woods is dry and grass and other vegetation in sunny spots are already getting crispy. If we don’t get significant rain and soon, I shudder to think how bad it could get.

With early ice out and warm weather, the entire season is several weeks ahead at least. Stripers have arrived a week or two early. Bass are spawning a week or two early as well. Trout and salmon were rising to early mayflies in the Kennebago watershed last week and that is also two weeks early.  In the upper Mags they have been fishing the sucker spawn for over a week. You will want to cash in all your chips and go fishing now, before waters warm further or rivers fall even lower.

The ice went out very early this year in Rangeley, one of the earliest ice outs ever – around April 17th. I couldn’t make it up there, so I don’t have much of a report. I heard that people were catching fish in Rangeley Lake almost immediately.  I missed the smelt runs and the sucker spawn due to family obligations that take precedence, but made it up last weekend to catch the early hatches.

I opened up the camp on Kennebago Lake and fished the watershed. Rangeley River was too low to fish effectively. On the upper parts of the Kennebago River, good trout (16 inches and above) were rising to dry flies while others of similar size were down in deep holes eating baitfish (based on the evidence they coughed up when hooked on Cosohammer streamers and other similar patterns.)
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Sporadic hatches and spinners of early mayflies were bringing the brook trout to the surface.

Sporadic hatches and spinners of early mayflies were bringing the brook trout to the surface.

When a hatch is on, big trout will take up shallow feeding stations

On the lake, in the so-called Logans (shallow area where the Upper Kennebago River flows in), a profusion of midges brought smutting trout to the surface.

A calm evening made it easy to spot trout sipping midges.

       A calm evening made it easy to spot trout sipping midges.

I did get distracted from looking for rises one evening

                I did get distracted from looking for rises one evening