I fished the Androscoggin last Saturday. It was cold and windy and the hydroelectric company raised the flows the previous night. The conditions were hardly ideal. Still, I had to get out and fish up north before the end of the season. It wasn’t a high volume day by any means. We all fished hard,
And, Now You Have to Work for Your Fish
No more easy fishing. Now, you need to work if you want to catch fish. The fish are all still in the river, but, they are noticeably more difficult to catch. In my opinion, we just turned the corner from “easy” to “challenging.” It happens every year. The leaf hatch is over, the spawn is
Breaking Off a Foul-Hooked Fish?
After Saturday’s morning pilgrimage to Les’s Pool, I spent a few hours at the Swift Hatchery Pipe area (aka, The Toilet Bowl or The Kiddie Pool). “Dries or die” with my #4. I went six-for-nine. Unfortunately, I witnessed quite a bit of foul-hooking. Here’s what happened. There was a strong waft of marijuana. I turned
Les’s Pool
On Saturday, in spite of the cold, I decided to go to a freestone: the Westfield East Branch (our river guide here). It’s not a river that was stocked in the fall, and a regular angler there said that the stocking was meager in the spring. But, I wanted to see it before the snows