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 Fly Trying: It's A Spinner Bonanza, Try Some New Flies!
Posted by bfly on May 06, 2008 (114 reads)
This morning I fished the Oatka from about 9:50 till 10:50 and witnessed a wonderful spinner bonanza. The females where in mid flight with bright yellowish orange egg sacks attached to the back of their abdomen. Then they would drop onto the water to deposit their eggs and in doing so became easy pickings for many hungry trout. Fish were rising everywhere and tying on a fly was difficult but setting the hook on my first 3 or 4 was even tougher. See, when you are dedicated nymph fisherman such as me, it becomes difficult to adjust for the dry fly fishing. I did manage to finally set up on my first fish with a #14 hendrickson dry fly and soon landed it. Then I changed flies (I know what you're going to say, “why change flies?”) Well, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to try a number of new flies I had tied and watch the fish to see how they would react the fly patterns. So, I tied on one of my new hair winged flies. This produced an outstanding take. The trout slowly swam towards the fly following it downstream for a second then broke the water's surface and sucked the fly in. After landing this fish I did it again and tied on my new FWR spinner (foam winged rusty spinner) and took another trout. The FWR spinner worked exceptionally well. It was durable and floated perfectly even after dragging it under the water (don't ask). After this fish, the spinner activity was done and I switched to a hendrickson nymph which produced two
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Brook Trout: If It Looks Good, Fish It!
Posted by greg on May 02, 2008 (259 reads)
I caught my first Maine Brook Trout on opening day in 39 degree water, and standing up to my knees in snow. Yesterday, it was almost 80 degrees and I caught my second Maine Brookie of the season and a couple of friends that I often fish with caught a few nice brown trout. The water temp had risen to 50 degrees in a short amount of time and the fish were moving. Not much feeding activity on top yet but the fact that the trout were taking streamers was a good sign. After a long winter, the tug from an early season Maine Brookie felt great. The fish fought hard for it was and decent size and very healthy looking. As is typical in with early spring in Maine, the hatches still are still non descript. #22 something or other, but nothing eating off the top anyway, maybe tonight that will change. I have always been a big fan of the Maine Brookie and my understanding is that some pure strains still exist in Maine. I often go in search of Brook Trout by exploring small brooks and streams in Maine that are off the beaten paths. It makes for a fun day and a nice break from the bigger and
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Maine: Ice-Out Salmon, Seize The Day
Posted by jeremy on April 25, 2008 (715 reads)
Fly fishing, for me, represents a series of fleeting opportunities. In my lifetime, there are a finite number of spring salmon runs, hendrickson hatches, fall steelhead runs, albie runs, herring runs, bluefin tuna runs, hex hatches and so on and so forth. From a global perspective, there are so many opportunities and destinations that I would love to, but probably never will get to experience. My home state of Maine offers so many opportunities that I will probably never get a chance to experience. With 35,000 miles of rivers and streams it is simply not possible to be everywhere at the same time. Maine’s winters can be long and it is no wonder that when the ice goes out on Maine’s 5,000 or so lakes; it is cause for celebration. Seriously, “ice-out” in Maine is a big event and folks even have bets on exactly what day the ice will go out on a lake. Ice-out for me, as a fly fisherman, offers a fly fishing experience that I really enjoy and try to take advantage of every year. During the winter when the ice is on the lake, the big Salmon cruise just below the surface in all different water depths. During the summer, the big lake run salmon tend to hang out in deep waters of the lake. So, ice-out offers a fleeting and somewhat transitional period of time where the water is cold enough and the smelt are in the rivers and close to shore and the salmon are right there with them. It is a different kind of experience, but one
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Alaska: Pebble Mine, Alaska's Next Gold Rush?
Posted by Austin on April 19, 2008 (349 reads)
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Bristol Bay, Alaska from what I have always heard is one of, if not the most worlds most amazing places for a fly fisherman to fish and visit. I had always been completely fascinated about tales of wild beautiful rainbow trout, grayling, and multitudes of salmon inhabiting the region from sources both online and offline. As of recently, I had heard talk and rumors about a large scale open pit gold mine proposed to be placed directly on top of the world famous river drainages in the bristol bay region. I did some research and decided that this was an definately an important issue that needed to be addressed by fisherman from around the world. I am concluding my junior year in high school here in Maine. As part of our curiculum every junior in my high school is required to write a research paper, and for my topic of research I chose the proposed open pit gold mine known as the “Pebble Mine” that is under the operation of the Canadian mining company Northern Dynasty. So, instead of writing my research paper on some of the other more common topics such as bio fuel, global warming and recently introduced sports regulations; I decided to write my research paper on the Pebble Mine. This topic may not be very important to the majority of my classmates, but I could think of no
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Summer Steelhead: Western New York Style
Posted by bfly on April 17, 2008 (300 reads)
Summer steelhead? I know what you're thinking, he's crazy the only place to get summer steelhead is either the lake or places like the Salmon river or on the West coast. Well, let me put it to you this way, today was not the day to wear my thick fleece pants under my waders. I now have a good man stink working, and after getting back into the car for the ride home I know why. Can you say SEVENTY Degrees in early April! This explains the summer reference. Who in there right mind would wear fleece pants under there waders in summer. Nobody! (except for me of course) Well, enough about the weather. The fishing was pretty good. I started at the bridge and worked my way down fishing an egg pattern under a strike indicator. The water was perfect, with just a little stain to it. Clear enough to see the bottom in the riffle and run sections but not in the deeper pools. After I caught a creek chub on the egg I switched to a #8 bead chain white woolly bugger under the indicator. Just as I lost sight of the bridge going down stream around the bend, my indicator dipped and I set up on a nice steelhead. After some vigorous head shakes and a small run the fish came off. Before I headed back up to the run to check it for more fish, I saw a glimpse of red on the side of a large steelhead making its way into the run from the tail out of the pool. I quickly made a cast, then another, and then finally the right drift produced a take. There is nothing like seeing a big male steelhead turn to take you're fly! Fish on! About a minute later, after a few head shakes and runs, he threw the fly. Upon examining the fly I noticed it must have embedded
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