The smelt run ended a little over a week ago but people caught a lot of big fish in the Rangeley area. It seemed like the smelt run lasted longer than normal and since the water was lower almost everywhere, it was easy to reach the big trout and salmon that were feeding on the smelt. I saw more large (from 2.5 to 4 pound) trout caught in a few days than I have ever seen. I guided a guy who caught 6-8 (I lost count) trout over 2 pounds in two days. I fished several days as well and caught two trout on successive casts that were over four pounds. Of course my video camera ran out of memory right before I landed them so I have no photographic evidence – but my buddy saw them. Most all the fish were caught on a certain smelt imitation pattern that not too many people use. But people were catching them on a variety of patterns. When I get a break from guiding I will post videos of the smelt run so you can get a sense of it. Because of the early warm weather there were some good hatches as well of blue-winged olives and plenty of fish caught on dry flies and small nymphs that imitate blue-winged olives. The Rangeley River and the Maggalloway river above Parmachenee (have to stay at Bosebuck camps to fish there) had anglers with 15 fish afternoons. The Rangeley river had some really fat and strong fish that fought hard, although I did better nymphing than with dry flies, but the fish were rising.

Now it is time for the suckers to start their spawning run and if one is in the correct spot, nymphing with sucker egg patterns can be very productive. Here is an excerpt from my book on the subject…

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Although smelt runs get most of the attention, as spring progresses and stream temperatures increase and water levels drop, other spring spawning runs can bring outstanding fishing. Following the smelt (about two weeks later) are the suckers, followed one or two weeks after that by fallfish (some call them chubs) and black-nose dace. Sucker spawn is small and varies in color. Most that I have seen are pale to medium yellow in color. Eggs leak from female suckers before and during the actual spawning activity. Trout and salmon line up behind sucker schools, feasting on the yellow eggs. I have caught a salmon, opened its mouth to remove the fly, and its gullet appeared to be full of lemon jello because it had swallowed so many eggs. Fishing can be so good during the sucker spawning run in the Rapid River that several guides I know turn down guiding jobs (even knowing there would be large tips involved) to fish themselves for brook trout up to 5 pounds. Believe me; I have seen the pictures (carefully edited to remove any landmarks that might reveal the exact location). Fishing the sucker spawn is not easy – it took me ten years to learn the intricacies of it – those that have figured it out don’t share readily. I can’t really blame them.