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
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Return to Maine Roots
Welcome to our latest blog team member, Spencer Belson! This is his first post on our blog. While rivers in northern New England only continue to get more crowded, especially in western Maine, it seems remote stillwaters have been spared from the added pressure. If you asked just about any fly shop owner where the
Maine 2022, Part 3
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
Maine 2022, Part 2
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