June in Full Swing in the Maine Outdoors
June is half gone and we are well into the summer season. Everything seems to be ahead of normal, yesterday I spent the morning fly fishing for smallmouth bass on a local pond. Halfway through the morning I decided to try a surface popper, something that usually does not produce results until the middle of July, and it worked. No it was not a complete home run, casts had to be nearly perfect and many fish passed at the fly without taking. But still this means some of the most exciting freshwater fishing of the summer is getting started.