Paul-b And I met Chris-f from New Hampshire. Bright sunny day we head out on a custom float trip down the Kennebec River, I had my Scott duck canoe with a 3hp motor, and Chris used a Water Skeeter pontoon float. At Evergreen Campground there is a boat ramp and a shuttle service 7 miles of river to float and fish. ( Check them out www.evergreencampground.com) The river has great runs on both sides of the first island. Paul and I fished river right and Chris went river left behind the Island. Not long Paul and I could see fish feeding on something. We drifter thru the pool beached the canoe and waded back to the top. Fish everywhere but Paul and I could not fool them. After 2and a half hours I finally picked up a 12” brookie and lost a nice salmon. Hot mid day sun we started to drift some more and catch Chris. 2 miles and we float thru a deep fast pool. Again we beached the canoe and fished this deep run. (No Chris) This part of the river looks like something you would see out west . Great nymph water. I could see the water was really deep so I put together a long leader with big flies. 1- black bead head bugger 2- lg black stone fly and a 16 bead prince also 2 bb split shot above the bugger. This type of rig is hard to cast but the fish are only 10’+/- away. Paul is rigging up and on my second cast FISH ON nice brown.. Paul does some net and camera work and we are on the board. I can’t say enough about this run 300 yards long back eddy cold you name it it’s here. Less than 5 minutes BOOM and UP he comes a beauty male salmon jumping like a fresh Atlantic. I picked up several fish in this pool but the 1 10 minutes was unbelievable. We fished this pool for 2 hours and started to wonder about Chris. Paul and I thought he must be below us. We floated down and still no Chris. In this 7 mile stretch of water you could fish for days and not cover all the pools. Finally around the last bend I see the Blue Water Skeeter. Chris !! We talked about river left and all the area he fished. He did say something about a monster brown but I’ll let him tell that story. What a great day on the river, every one should hit this section there is room for all of us. See ya in Solon Joe-m
Nice fish – and nice photo work Paul. Boy those are some healthy fish and pretty too! Look at the spots on both fish – so cool! The Salmon has those big well defined Black dots and the Brown has that rich gold color with nice dots too. Nice job guys!
great report. Even though its going on 2 years old.
Wow, nice fish! i stayed at evergreen last summer for the TU trout camp. the whole week no fish were caught that big except one salmon i landed that was just a little bit smaller than the one in the picture. what time of year were you there?