First things first. A decision will be made October 10 whether to have a public hearing on the Middle Dam replacement that I described in an earlier blog post. For those of you who get alerts when I post, and read this today or tomorrow morning, please email Joshua.Brown@Maine.gov immediately to request a public hearing because you are concerned about limited future access to the famous Middle Dam pool.
The last week of the fishing season was hit or miss for most anglers. If you intercepted a school of fish fresh from a lake than you had fabulous fishing. If you didn’t and were fishing over a few stale, fished over trout and salmon, then fishing was slow. It didn’t seem to me that many fish came up Kennebago River even though the flow was good with good rains the last week. Good numbers of trout did migrate through Little Kennebago but didn’t seem to hold in the usual spots. The early July flood really changed current flows and shallowed up some of the deeper spots. I hope this is not a permanent change.
Once again, every year convinces me further we need to extend the season because of the warming of New England. As I write this on October 9th, I haven’t even had a frost yet at Kennebago – mosquitos are still flying around, and the temperature is in the 70’s
I didn’t really fish that many other places this fall because my publisher gave me an October 1st deadline for my new book, possibly titled, ” In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout – Timing, Tactics, and Territories” and I spent the last week guiding a very lovely client, my wife..
