New ride

New drift boat!!

Fall Madness

This fall has been wild as far as the amount of fishing and hunting we have been doing. I wish I could say the fishing was wild. I would consider it mediocre at best in southern Maine with a few of our central and farther north locations fishing great as usual. if you can fight the wind and arctic like feel to the air at times. But if you love to throw big streamers and get huge takes then the cold is well worth it! Though the numbers haven’t been great this year the size and quality of fish have been outstanding. Last week Dylan caught two nineteen inch browns in two locations, one on a wade trip and the other on a float trip. Both fish hammered big articulated streamers, which we love to see!!!! The hunting this fall has been pretty good, no fall turkey this year since I was to busy fishing, but we have gotten some god numbers of grouse and woodcock and we still have all of second season for ducks to replenish some much needed tying materials!! And of course what’s a post without some fish porn!!

Big K Float

This past thursday I did a reacon float of the Big K with my father and Dylan. We certainly found some fish! With a nice mixture of salmon, browns and bows! With the water temperatures dropping and the fish putting on the feed bags for this coming winter there isn't a better time to head out for some late fall action. The bigger fish where caught throwing streamers with sink tips to the banks but the majority of fish where caught nymphing in riffles and fast water areas.

New Water Equals Nice Fish

This week we decided to check out some new waters for some fall run fish and we found some nice fish!! Most fish came on white streamers which is pretty typical of salmon this time of year. In one pool we found some rising fish and managed to fool a few on dries which was pretty awesome this late in the season. Here are some pics of our adventures the last few days.

Fall!!

It's finally fall!! My favorite time of year, big fish all colored up, cool water and of course hunting. To me fall entitles hunting and fishing my brains out, putting huge miles on the truck and burning through boxes and boxes of shells. Hey you can sleep when your dead right? This past week I put almost 500 miles on my truck and 8 miles on the drift boat in search of some colored up fall trout, And I wasn't dissapointed! Last week I had some of the best fishing I have ever had. One day landing 20 wild brook trout between 14 and 20 inches. Between two of us we caught over 40 akmost all of which where brook trout. Sunday I floated Solon, It was a very windy and bright day making fishing tough, but a great day was had anyways. Here are some pictures of some tubby trout from last week.

Summer Time!!

Since the last post summer has come in to full swing. We haven't been able to post to much because of summer jobs and a general lack of time to go fishing. I did go on one trip to the Rangeley area which was awesome and we caught a bunch of nice wild brook trout up to 20 inches. Now we have started to focus on warm water species, mostly bass and pike which are an absolute blast to catch on a fly rod and hit flies like a fish should. Here are some pictures of the last month.

GLS

Now that turkey season is over for me I have gotten a little bit of time to do some fishing. Currently I am on Peaks Island for a kayaking class until the first so I cant do any freshwater. But I am getting the chance to do some salt water which is pretty cool. The water temp is 58 degrees currently in casco bay which is up 6 degrees from yesterday. Yesterday we kayaked for 4 hours all around peaks and little diamond and we didn't see any sign of fish any where. I think its still alittle early. I have heard reports of stripers up in the rivers chasing bait which is a good sign. Hopefully when I am back on land I get the oppurtutnity to get down to the portland area to try to catch a few. Last weekend I did get the chance to go on a quick trip to camp to put the water in and fish Grand Lake Stream with my dad. We timed it perfectly with a drop of 450 cfs. The fish were in teh river and they were hungry, I caught nine fish 6 salmon, two brrok trout and a bass. All the salmon were over 17 the biggest well over twenty. Stonefly and caddis nymphs did the trick with lots of weight to get them down deep.

Cast and Blast

Check out what we have been doing the last two days!! The bird had a 10 inch beard and inch long spurs, then below are two of a half dozen big brookies we caught thursday afternoon! Got to love Maines spring cast and blast!

Turkey Season!!

Turkey number one is dead! One more to go!

Exam Time

Its exam time so we havent been posting as much recently but we have been out fishing a few times. All the small streams in southern Maine are fishing well and we have heard the fishing to our north is going well also. IN btween classes and on some weekends we have gotten out and hit some little rivers. We have mostly been catching browns, insect activity has picked up but the water is medium level and dirty meaning we have been throwing small streamers most of the time. In the eveings we get in to some rising fish. But even still its a sporadic rise. Here are some pics of the last few weeks. Expect more posts in the coming days since exams end tomorrow!

Salmon River Video

Check out our new video form our Salmon River trip!! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLUgLFhM-I&feature=g-upl&context=G20092b7AUAAAAAAAAAA

Sucker Nation!!

The suckers are in thick right now! We went to a local brook in search of trout and found a few but we found a bunch of these buggers!

Catching Fish With My Barehands

So fishing a little stream friday night I came across a rainbow that wasn't doing so hot, we decided to try to catch it with our barehands, we cornered it and I snagged it. It turns out it had some sort of gross flesh eating disease, needless to say it didnt go back in to the stream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PEIUiBTqT0&feature=g-upl&context=G20092b7AUAAAAAAAAAA

Salmon River Trip Review

Well we had one heck of a trip up to the Salmon River this year. The group caught 30 fish, 28 steelhead and 2 browns in two half days and 2 full days of fishing. Everyone caught fish around 15 pounds and everyone had multi fish days. Two of us had a five fish or better on Saturday which was our best day by far, 16 fish total.

Here are some pictures of our last three days on the Salmon.



First fish on the spey Saturday.

Biggest fish on the spey and second fish of the day for me on Saturday, She slammed a popsicle halfway through the swing!


My dads first steelhead!