I went to the Swift yesterday. It is a New Year’s Eve tradition for me on most years. I go below Route 9 on the last day of the catch-and-release regulations. It was easy to get a prime spot, thankfully, and I spent a few hours throwing size 30 dries to non-rising fish. Some rainbows ..read more

If you were forced to boil down the fishing Maine’s Rangeley Region into just three words, it would likely be these: big brook trout. And in truth, that is the region’s claim-to-fame. The western Maine mountains are one of the last areas in the country to harbor wild, native squaretails that exceed 20 inches. In ..read more

I had a memorable trip up north this past Labor Day weekend for a couple days where my father and I targeted brook trout and landlocked Atlantic salmon. My most memorable experiences were at the area featured in these videos. I fished this spot twice. The first time, we saw a moose crossing a body of ..read more

It might be a throwback idea, but I am a huge fan of wild, native fish. It is also fun to target stocked fish, particularly if they’re part of a thoughtful stocking program that is meant to generate naturally regenerating trout such as what has happened at the Farmington. But I don’t think there is The post Wild Fish and the Deerfield appeared first on BlogFlyFish.com ..read more

It took a bit of doing, but our annual blog writers’ Maine gathering has commenced. We’re a smaller group this year, as it is just Jamie and I, but that’s what happens when people have personal and work commitments. We will toast the other writers tonight. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The post Maine 2022, Part 1 appeared first on BlogFlyFish.com ..read more

The last few days of our Maine trip are hard to explain. As Jamie and I ate our dinner on the last night, our bodies tired and our minds spent, we decided that it would be very difficult to articulate what we had experienced. On one day, we fished from a boat and had to The post Maine 2022, Part 3 appeared first on BlogFlyFish.com ..read more

I wouldn’t say that fishing in Maine is easy, usually. There are a lot of variables up here: water temps, water flows, whether brook trout have pushed into the rivers to chase smelt and how far they’ve forayed, and the weather. Regarding the last point, you’ll go from sultry and humid days to cold and The post Maine 2022, Part 2 appeared first on BlogFlyFish.com ..read more

It’s not much, but I fished Sunday and saw three species (‘bows, brookies, and browns) on three techniques (dries, tightlining, and swinging wets): a “3 x 3″ type of day. The fish of the day taped at 18” and took a David Hughes March Brown Flymph (recipe here) on a very slow swing at a The post Three by Three appeared first on BlogFlyFish.com ..read more