Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
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Fishing report from the Western Maine Mountains and Beyond.
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
3w ago
The following links to a video of playing a large salmon who took a dry fly during a brown drake hatch in mid-June. Anglers sometimes don’t think about dry-fly fishing for landlocks in a lake but even though in lakes ..read more
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
1M ago
The three-month gap between this blog post and my last is the longest hiatus I have taken since I started this blog years ago. That is what occurs when I have a new granddaughter living ten minutes away and my ..read more
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
4M ago
To get you through the last few weeks before fishing season opens, here are a few more videos of my trip to British Columbia last September on the Bow River, Livingston Creek, and the Crowsnest River. Also, a quick morning ..read more
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
5M ago
Late 2023 and early 2024 will go down in history as the year with no winter. In many parts of New England, we only experienced a few snowstorms and rain melted that snow quickly. In southern Maine, we only had ..read more
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
5M ago
Hello everyone, Mid-January finally brought some wintery weather in the form of snow and cold, but it was interspersed with warmer weather and rain. Bottom Line: Very few lakes and ponds froze enough to be safe for ice-fishing or ice-skating ..read more
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
5M ago
(Note: This blog was supposed to post in early January but didn’t for some reason, so I am posting it in early February.) I started to write about the warm, stormy and rainy November, December, and early January, but then ..read more
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
8M ago
I started flying extensively again this summer after a two-year break during the worst of Covid. I am a cutthroat trout afficionado and I was eager to get out west and find some yellow-golden beauties. So excited in fact that ..read more
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
9M ago
The second half of October has given us very warm temps for this time of year with highs reaching the 70s before returning to seasonal levels as Halloween approaches. I hope you have done a little fishing. I closed my ..read more
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
10M ago
Well, it is early October, and I haven’t posted in over a month. My bad – but my excuse is a good one – I spent too much time fishing! Days in the Kennebago watershed and then weeks in western ..read more
Mainely Fly Fishing Blog
11M ago
The Western Maine Mountains rivers and streams have been fishing well all summer because of the coldwater flows from all the rain. Sometimes, most rivers have been unfishable because of the storms causing flooding, but in-between, iife has been good ..read more