I look forward to autumn and fall in Maine each year. The weather is for the most part settled with clear days and cool nights. The days are getting shorter and an 8 AM start no longer feels like Don 2011mid-day to me. The last several mornings I have been pretty much perfect cool but not cold with no wind so that the water is perfectly calm. We have had wind later in the day that can make fly fishing a challenge for those learning to fly fish.
After years of folks hearing me say how great September is many have begun to book trips this week and next are already very busy, before the last minute calls looking to spend some time outdoors on a pretty day. Clients are still taking family fishing trips, late this year. Don't know what has changed but I am still spending at least a couple of mornings each week unhooking perch steadily under perfect blue skies.
The bass fishing has been excellent and of course the pickerel panic is about to happen any day now. This season does not last nearly long enough plan to spend some time in the Maine Outdoors before it is over
Eagles Fishing!
A family on a family fishing trip last week was treated to an eagle picking up a fish very close to the boat. Actually he missed on the first pass swung right back and picked up a big shiner on the second pass not twenty five feet from the boat! Of course I was completely flatfooted with my camera not even turned on. As luck would have it though my client got a photo with his phone that I was sort of proud of. Read more.....
Guides Day Off!
Well actually afternoon, but I digress. I had shortened my striper fishing trip in the morning because it was simply too rough to be much fun and the fish were uncooperative. As a result I was home at noon and free for the afternoon. I called Argy and arranged to meet at Ayer Park in Union. We loaded into the Lund for a quiet afternoon. Read more......
