The weather up and down the entire east coast remained hot, humid, and rainy from mid-July to mid-August. While rivers had plenty of flow, water temperatures in rivers and right below the surface of most lakes was in the 70’s – just too warm for good trout fishing. People believe that it is the hot sunny days that heat up water temperatures, but a bigger impact is when nights are warm and humid and the water doesn’t cool from evaporation when the sun goes down.. Most of the nights in Maine during this time period stayed in the 70’ss with high humidity.

I didn’t do a lot of fishing because I hurt my back playing one-on-one basketball with my son. (My heart said yes, but my body said no). The fishing I did was in the headwaters or small tributaries of some of our famous Rangeley waters. The water was a little cooler and flow was good. The trout weren’t huge, 6 to 12 inches, but they were eager and seemed bigger on a 3-weight from pools the size of a one-car garage. And of course we never saw a soul, even though it was during weekends.

I want to go back in time to six weeks ago  because I haven’t had a chance yet to mention  a huge storm that hit the Kennebago area on evening of July 2nd. This Maine summer has been hot and humid with a chance of thunderstorms almost every day it seems. Some isolated storms have been severe with localized high winds and flooding. Sometimes a line of thunderstorms will pass over the same area again and again, a phenomenon called “training” – like train cars passing over the same section of track. This event can cause continual cloudbursts. This weather struck northern Franklin County between the Canadian border and Kennebago and Parmachenee Lakes on July 2nd.

We experienced record-setting heat at Kennebago Lake the first week of July

During that night, a train of severe storms in Bowman Township dropped over three inches of rain in just several hours.

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Approaching storm on the evening of July 2nd

This area has been extensively logged, reducing the forest soils’ ability to absorb water. One result:  the upper stretch of Little Kennebago River overflowed its banks and turned a thick muddy brown – imagine the color of the Mississippi River. So much muddy water flowed that Little Kennebago Lake, the western end of Kennebago Lake, the entire Kennebago River, and the part of Cupsuptic Arm where the river empties, all turned the same chocolate brown. It remains to be seen if this silting event has any longer-term effects on this critical coldwater fishery.

For the next several days the Kennebago River turned to mud.

The incoming muddy river turned the west end of Kennebago Lake muddy as well.