Tag Archives: penobscot river

Do You Know This Bug?

The Hellgrammite. It looks nasty and I wouldn’t touch it. Most of you have seen this bug but have no clue what it is. If you’re flipping rocks at just about any river in Maine you will find the larva form of this, which all fish love to eat. A quick search I found this […]

Something to Think About

Today the temperature is supposed to reach almost 100 degrees. Great for those beach goers but not so much for us fishermen. When the days are really hot and the nights are really warm, the water temperatures starts to climb and when the water temperatures start getting closer to 70 degrees it stresses the fish. […]

Mid Summer Adventure

I was coming off a seven week guiding binge when I got a text from my next client saying her husband had been in accident and wouldn’t able to make it up here fishing. Most would take the weekend off to relax but not us. We decide to take a mid-summer adventure! We pack the […]

Streamers 101

With spring not far away, I’ve been thinking about where I want my blog to go. I want to continue to write about different places and trips I do but I want to help make getting into fly fishing a lot easier. I find I get a lot of the same questions from people. Fly […]

3 Days and 9 Species

I am very lucky to be a very busy Maine fishing guide and I am very gratefulnfor that but it makes it hard to find time to actually get out and fish on my own. So I blocked out Memorial weekend this past spring and planned a fishing trip my boys but Tait(my oldest) had […]