May 7 Fishing report

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Fishing Report: So far the month of May has continued the weather pattern of the last few months – colder than normal with occasional snow. We are expecting snow on Saturday over much of Maine – on May 9th!!! Lakes in the Rangeley Region are still frozen.

I have been exploring new streams lately. It is like a game, recognize what looks like good holding water and see if you are right. I was fishing a stream that I discussed in my book, Flyfisher’s Guide to New England, but fishing several sections that I was unfamiliar with. I hadn’t raised but one fish in more than an hour, when I noticed this section (see photo below) where all of stream’s current was funneled together and then passed under a fallen tree. Nearby was deep, still water. If this wasn’t a prime brookie or brown spot, I don’t know what is.

a perfect trout holding spot - concentrated current, cover, and nearby deep water.

a perfect trout holding spot – concentrated current, cover, and nearby deep water.

Lo and behold, my wife and I caught a half dozen from this spot. I get a kick sometimes from catching trout in unexpected places. This part of the stream was so near Route 302, that if I had lengthened and changed the direction of my cast I might have almost reached the shoulder.

One brook trout of several I caught from under the fallen tree

One brook trout of several I caught from under the fallen tree


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While I consider exploring remote wilderness rivers, the ultimate fly-fishing experience, I get a kick out of catching fish out of streams that flow through quaint New England towns, under covered bridges, and besides old mills or farms. It is like a fly fishers Sturbridge Village. Here are a few photos from the same trip

A beautiful run near an old barn.

A beautiful run near an old barn.

And a willing brook trout in that run took a soft-hackle streamer with brook trout colors

And a willing brook trout in that run took a soft-hackle streamer with brook trout colors

Not too far upstream, an interesting covered bridge for a hiking trail

Not too far upstream, an interesting covered bridge for a hiking trail

People ask me all the time for more information about the CoSoHammer (Conehead Soft-hackle) streamer because I talk about it so often and write about it in my books. This pattern is a derivation of a Jack Gartside tie. I just made a video showing how this fly moves under water. It is on YouTube but I will imbed it here.

https://youtu.be/xXSBSkm1A_8

Ice Out at Kennebago Lake

I am fortunate enough to be up at my camp on Kennebago Lake during ice out, which I believe will be tomorrow although the ice is almost gone from my part, the far northwest corner of the lake. Between snow melt and rain, water is cascading down the hillsides and the lake is up into the bushes. Weird weather. Warm and humid with fog over the cold water, then colder and humid, and then severe thunderstorms with pouring rain. Enjoy the photos.IMG_0080 (2) IMG_0085 (2) IMG_0088 (2)

I also took my first Maine fishing trip of the year to Collyer Brook in Gray, Maine. This year was by my reckoning, my 30th year fishing this local small water and if memory serves, I have never been skunked there in the Spring. I know though that a number of years I only caught one fish, I probably stayed as long as it took to catch one. Usually, Collyer is the place I go for my first trip of the year. This week, the fish were in a real biting mood, sometimes stocked fish are not. I even caught a small wild or holdover trout although I didn’t get a photo.

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Welcome Spring!

July Rains Keep Fishing Productive

What a difference a year makes. Last year, July marked the continuation of a deepening drought with low and warming water. This year, almost continuous thundershowers have kept rivers so high as to be unfishable at times. This in turn has  brought landlocked salmon into many rivers from the lakes where they usually spend their summers. These salmon will  now stay in the rivers all summer. Some anglers believe that salmon only run up rivers in the spring and the fall, but during high water, salmon will enter and move up the rivers regardless of the calendar.For example, fresh salmon moved into both the Magalloway and the Kennebago Rivers in early July, and anglers who intercepted these fresh salmon did well.

My wife and I actually had a LLS double, both fighting leaping salmon at the same time, but not in the river. We were dry-fly fishing Kennebago Lake during the evening around July Fourth. We saw no sign of any of the drake hatch from the week before, but trout and salmon must have memories that last at least a week because for several nights, they were coming up and nailing a Quigley’s green drake cripple (emerger). The best trout was a fat 16 incher that gave quite a fight on my 3-weight rod.

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Here is a few photos with various family members holding up typical schoolie stripers. I highly recommend getting out there and giving it a try even if the water is warming up and the fish are getting a bit more difficult to come by.IMG_4469IMG_0996 (2)IMG_0965