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See my previous post for more details of the last month. This is more of a visual record. Follow me on Instagram @ mainelyflyfishing. To optimize your autumn fishing experience for big trout, check out my In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout book.

Despite the drought and heat of this summer – hottest summer ever in Portland by a whopping two degrees!, fish successfully held over in southern Maine’s rivers and streams. Here are a few nice brown trout taken in late August in a pretty small river/stream outside of Portland.

Early September, yielded some spectacular visuals; from early morning to early evening.

 

Due to the very low river levels, pre-spawn fish were staging in strange places. We took a number of very nice fish in early September in locations I call frog water.

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On Thursday, September 4th, people reported tiny flying ants carpeting the water all over the state. I can confirm from personal accounts, the Fish River system in Northern Maine, Damariscotta Lake on the Maine coast, Kennebago Lake in the western Maine mountains, and Dundee Pond in southern Maine. Here are some visuals.

A couple early landlocked salmon were being caught over Labor Weekend in pools where migrating fish found deeper water.

 

Of course, cannot neglect the tragedy of the great white shark attack in Casco Bay and the continued sightings. This video from my sister’s friend taken from a boat trip in Casco Bay.

 

Late summer and early fall were and are both similar to mid-summer and different. Sorry for that first sentence – compound and confusing! What I mean is that the drought continues but the temperatures have returned to what is more typical for fall.

Rain continues to be hard to come by. Since my last report a month ago, most of Maine received maybe one rainstorm or thunderboomer of about an inch. A few lucky locations received two. An inch of rain in a month does not break the drought but prolongs it. Rivers are now lower than they have been all year. This holds true for most of New England. I saw some photos recently of the Missiquoi River in northern Vermont and it looked like a creek, not a river. The Dead Diamond in the Dartmouth Grant has been running below 50 CFS for weeks.

On the other hand, the temperatures in the mountains the last week of August struggled to hit 60 with lows near 40. This is what was typical years ago and trees are already starting to turn – a month earlier than some of our more recent warm weather Septembers.

What does all this mean for the fishing? Well, it means the water temperatures in lakes and ponds rapidly fell into the low 60s and rivers on cold mornings were as low as the high 40s. This has brought some trout and salmon back into the shallows, and caused bass and other species to start to feed aggressively. Trout and salmon will not ascend the rivers and streams to spawn when they are low, so they are staging around river inlets and outlets, or in the larger lower pools waiting. With low water, anglers who know these spots can sight fish these schools of fish and do very well.

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As it seems like I have been saying a lot lately….Pray for rain. Could be worse. My son is in California where it has been well over 100 degrees with heavy smoke from the fires. My daughter is in northern Florida, where it has been 96 with very high humidity for weeks. Are there really still people that believe global climate change is a hoax?

The forecast for this week is perhaps some rain midweek but only a 50/50 chance. Any raising of the rivers will immediately bring a flush of fish. Systems where dam operators release water from lakes to raise the river for fish to migrate (such as the Kennebago River) may see small flow increases as water is released, but they only have so much water. In the meantime, fish lakes and ponds, or battle your fellow anglers in big pools where trout and salmon congregate.

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Hi Everyone,

Mid-summer fly fishing morphs into a different pursuit, at least for me. Gone are the marathon sessions intercepting heavy hatches, or hitting arriving striper blitzes, or casting poppers for bass on their spawning beds or hooking good-size trout and salmon feeding in cool rivers and streams.

In mid-July the pace slows. Often, that means lake or pond fishing for only an hour or two around dusk, trying to find fish still looking up for Hex stragglers. Sometimes, I take a leisurely kayak trip through coastal waterways several hours before or after high tide and cast for schoolies. Or I hike into the mountains and  move leisurely up the headwaters, casting a three-weight and a small Royal Wulff, and hooking small native brookies. On hot evenings or foggy and muggy mornings, I might hop on my float tube and try to tempt big bass hanging tight under the lily pads.

It is really about enjoying the Maine summer, relaxing, relishing the disappearance of some of the worst of the biting insects, and catching a few fish along the way.

 

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What a difference a week makes. After no rain for weeks and weeks, a stationary low-pressure system and lots of humid air resulted in a deluge. At my Windham residence, we received 2.5 inches of rain Sunday night, June 28^th; followed by another 2.5 inches on my birthday, June 29^th; followed by another 2 inches of rain over the next few days; followed by more rain on July 2^nd. We obviously received similar or greater amounts in Rangeley, since when I arrived a few days ago, my dock was awash, the lake level was in the bushes, and the rivers were in full flood. Still, I am thrilled to be relieved of my watering duty by Mother Nature. Keeping my perennial beds and vegetables moisturized was getting to be a full-time job.

I hate to keep beating on the same drum, but this is exactly what the climate change models predict – more periods of drought interrupted by huge rainfall events. Not good for the fish.

Brown drakes emerged on Kennebago Lake during the last week of June, and Lindsey and I hit pieces of it, somewhat hampered by our schedule and a couple windy days.

Lindsey did hook and land the largest salmon I have ever seen caught on Kennebago Lake. We were cruising down the middle of the lake when I spotted a boil, watched the tail of a big fish descending back into the depths, cut the engine, and then swung the boat around. Lindsey took a guess as to what direction the fish was heading and made a snap cast with a size-10 Quigley Green Drake Cripple (one of my favorite flies). A good fish (the same fish?) took the fly with aggression and jumped immediately after Lindsey tightened up. We watched a big salmon who was level with our heads as we sat in the boat, fall back into the water about ten feet away from us, and then jump again.

Eventually, he was netted, and quickly released. A hand measure (the span of my hand is actually 10 inches) showed him to be over 20 inches and well over three pounds, maybe 4. Kennebago doesn’t usually produce hefty salmon so this fish was exceptional.

Anytime the winds calmed, we found sporadic emergences of drakes and rising trout and salmon. Most were in the 12-inch range with  a few larger fish mixed in. We were always on the look out for shucks in the water…
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Before the rain, when the lower Kennebago River was flowing at summer levels, I know a spot where the trout and salmon that winter over in the river hang out as the water lowers and warms. At some point, they give it up and run down the river into the Cupsuptic arm of Mooselookmeguntic lake, but I caught up with them before they left. When fish are concentrated and the current is at the proper flow (not too slow or too fast), high stick (Czech/tight line nymphing) can be deadly and it was for me one day with a number of good-sized salmon and trout landed.

As is usually the case, the holdover trout were fat and healthy, and the holdover landlocked salmon were skinny and looked in need of a good meal.

The upper Kennebago’s flow diminished and with endless days of cloudless skies, you could see every pebble on the bottom. The bigger fish stayed tucked right against undercut banks or other cover. I managed to tease a nice fish out by drifting a nymph without an indicator inches from an undercut bank.

With the big rain event, all the rivers are in flood at the end of the month and finally starting to recede on July 4^th. Once the flood water subside, it will be interesting to see if the increased flows bring fresh fish into the rivers. As the brown drake hatch peters out, I will also be on the lookout for green drakes and hexes.

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June in the Northeast U.S. brought us dramatic temperature swings and virtually no rain or even significant cloud cover. Certain days, even in the mountains, were well into the 80s and then 36 hours later were in the 30s. By late June, lake surface water temperatures were very high for this time of year. On June 23rd, surface water temperatures on Kennebago Lake was 76 degrees.

With little rain, rivers went from high and cold – because of a cold spring with late mountain snowmelt – , to low and warm, in less than three weeks. Some areas are very dry. In Windham, Maine, from May 2 to June 24, we received less than a quarter of an inch of precipitation.

The river and stream trout fishing held up very well until late June because of some cold nights. During the last week of June, temperatures rose to the point where the better coldwater fish disappeared or became less active.

People report to me that good early Mayfly and caddis fly hatches occurred  throughout June in many areas and lucky anglers that were in the right place at the right time did well.

We started to see drakes emerge in the western Maine mountains around June 22nd and I am sure other areas have seen them for awhile. I expect the Rangeley area will see good large mayfly hatches through early July.

I am hearing reports of consistent fishing for stripers and even shad, although I haven’t had a chance to try for those species myself as of yet.

Personally, my New England fishing season was interrupted when my wife and I took a car trip to Florida to spend three weeks with our new grandson. I have only spent a few days in the Rangeley area but had good salmonid fishing when I was there. I had some time in my home in Windham and continued to explore the Presumpscot River.

 

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This largemouth had no problem engulfing my flypopper.

 

 

I continue to find that several rivers in southern Maine offer very good rainbow and brown trout fishing for holdover fish between 12 and 16 inches.  These are not stocked at this size but are stocked smaller and hold over several years and grow fat and happy. They find enough cold water during the summer months to survive.

Stay safe everyone.

Hi Everyone,

Over Memorial Day weekend, Rangeley area rivers continued to run cold and high, but dropping, with hatches starting. Anglers were packing into the Camp 10 Bridge pools on the upper Mags and catching fish with the sucker spawn going full force. The flow below Azischos Dam was finally dropped to a reasonable 650 on May 19th and anglers took full advantage with people everywhere. Plenty of fish in the Rangeley River and upper Kennebago although that river was tough to fish well, given the high flow.

With hot weather, arriving the last week of May, hatches started in earnest in northern and mountain Maine lakes and ponds with the usual assortment of early mayflies in the Henderickson/Quill Gordon/March Brown family. Temperatures have fluctuated all over the place with cold days featuring morning temps in low 30s, followed by days in the 80’s, and then back to cold weather again. On May 30 temps in the Rangeley area were in the mid 80’s. After a severe thunderstorm knocked out power, the high temps on June 1 were in the mid 40’s.

I got to fish the Rangeley River briefly for two mornings over the Memorial Day weekend, and blissfully had it to myself. Of course, the second morning I arrived at 5 am. Hey, the early bird….It helps that it was light by 415. I love nymphing this river in May. The water is so clear, and high-stick nymphing so productive.

All the fish seemed to want sucker spawn egg patterns, even though I didn’t see one sign of a sucker. This river gets fished heavily, so it is important to show trout and salmon patterns they haven’t seen. I hooked a few fish on royal coachman patterns, but they only wanted them skittered across the surface – not a combination I have tried often. More realistic emerger or low-profile patterns drifted naturally; they ignored.

On the Kennebago River (not saying where), hatches had not started in earnest, but some big trout had made their way up river from the lake. My wife hooked 4 or 5 that were well over two pounds, alas, only landing a couple, getting caught with 5X tippet – expecting dry-fly action and smaller fish. I did land a good fish later on with a soft-hackle marabou streamer. It happened to duplicate an event that I captured in the chapter on  landing large and powerful fish in my In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout book. For those of you who have the book, look up the photo on page 201. This trout took my fly in exactly the same spot as the photo and I did exactly the same thing. But now you can watch this video to see the conclusion.
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By the way, the reason I didn’t play the trout off of the reel is that my drag was being balky and I didn’t trust it in this situation.

Just as the action was picking up during the last week of May, my wife and I packed up and drove straight to Florida (without stopping in any public place) to see my five-month old grandson. Some things take priority over fishing.

My daughter does live on Lake Killarney, an excellent warmwater fishery. so I am still getting some fishing in.

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Hello, my fellow and lady fly-fishing in place companions. Finally, fishing season commenced in earnest throughout Maine during the last two weeks of May.. Ice Out in the Rangeley area occurred around the middle of May, with Big Island Pond (the headwaters of the Kennebago River system) holding on until May 18th. Rivers ran high and cold because even though the snow had melted in the lowlands, up on the tops of the mountains, supersaturated snowpack best measured in feet remained and was still melting. Smelt and then suckers were running and if you found fishable water, you could catch fish.

On May 17th, my wife and I hiked up to the headwaters of the Kennebago River and found one bend pool that was fishable, even with the water way up into the alders.. Even though the water temp was about 40, we hooked several fish, although we both lost a real headshaker – maybe the same one. Sometimes, big lake fish run up tribs to spawn and then overwinter in any nearby deep slow pools.

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My friend, Charlie, owner of Evening Sun Fly Shop, was up for the day delivering fly fishing equipment, and we found a few hours to fish the Pleasant River, where he cleaned up on brown trout by long distance nymphing with his favorite pattern.

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The water in the Presumpscot River stayed cold enough that I heard through the grapevine that a few lucky anglers were landing lake trout (togue) casting a streamer into faster water. I gave it a try below a small falls and as luck would have it, I landed my first lake trout ever on a fly. I was excited, because while I have probably caught dozens of species and subspecies of salmonids, never a lake trout while casting.

…and the release

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Hello everyone. I have been doing more fishing than posting lately. The middle of May featured more cold and windy weather, punctuated by another late spring stow storm on May 9th in southern Maine.. Little did we know at the time, that this would be the last precipitation in southern Maine (and most of the rest of central New England) for the rest of the month. The mountains, however, continued to see snow throughout May.

Maybe, I am the only one that tracks these things, but rainfall recently during prime river fishing months has been non-existent for large portions of New England. Looking back over Portland, Maine almanac data….July of 2019 featured less than an inch of precip. August was close to normal with a couple big thunderstorms. From September 1 to Oct 15, virtually no rain. And now May – no rain after May 1st. This has made river fishing difficult when flows lower.

The below normal temps in mid May (average readings during this time didn’t differ significantly from readings in late February, but I digress) did keep the water cold and southern Maine fishing remained good.

I went out pickerel fishing on the Presumpscot River system in my kayak since they typically become active early in the season, and ended up landing one of the largest landlocked salmon I have ever caught anywhere. I had decided to try some faster water, switched my fly to a CoSoHammer black ghost streamer pattern (see my earlier blog post) and hooked this monster. I had no net, and couldn’t figure out how to land him. Then I remembered that they tail Atlantic Salmon, and this fish was as big as a good-sized grilse, so voila! Didn’t measure the fish but at least 25 inches with huge head and jaw.

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The fly was mangled and so on a whim, I tied on a zonker-type pattern that had been shown to me by an old codger on the Yellow Breeches River in Pennsylvania. While other anglers on the river were fishing dry flies to educated fish, this guy said, “cast this streamer, those snooty trout will hammer it.” And they did. I had found the pattern tucked away in the corner of my streamer box during the winter, had tied up a bunch, and wanted to try it. The result (on the first time cast I took) was the largest brown trout I have caught in New England.

Just to validate, once again, how crazy fly-fishing is: I went back to the same area the next day and caught nothing significant (a couple 14-inch salmon nymphing were still fun), but then kayaking back to the take out, landed the largest pickerel I have caught on a fly. Didn’t measure it, but over 24 inches for sure. I hadn’t changed the pattern from earlier in the afternoon – it was a Cosohammer Black Ghost Streamer. I am lucky he didn’t cut me off. Three different species and the largest specimens I have ever caught within two days. Crazy.

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