Maine Fly Fishing | Smallmouth Bass & Landlocked Salmon 

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Happy tp help, more great videos coming plus the new season of The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing!

Thanks Sean! really appreciate your feedback! Get to Maine! you'll be happy! M

@@newflyfisher We've got some good smallmouth action here in MD, but I've got family in NH so I might make it up there eventually.

Lots of great fly fishing locations in Maine, we hope to come back this season and produce some more shows there. Hopefully you too can get back!

Hope you get back there, wonderful place!

These Maine landlocked Atlantics are a mix of wild / native and hatchery fish (from native brood stock). Your New York salmon are Pacific chinooks, cohos, and rainbows / steelhead and nearly 100% hatchery raised, though there are a small number of Atlantics, too. One of the big differences is that the NY fish spend most of their lives fattening up on the massive forage base of alewives in Lake Ontario or Lake Erie. These Maine landlocks are primarily riverine fish, though some of them, like the Grand Lake Stream fish, spend most of their days in lakes. The rivers drain granite lined and spruce covered basins, so they are rather acidic and not very fertile. The riverine fish subsist primarily on an insect based diet (which is sparse in the winter) so they don't get all that big. The lake dwellers eat smelts, which they also follow up tributaries in the spring, but the biomass of smelts isn't anything even remotely close to that of alewifes in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. A healthy three year old brown trout from Lake Ontario will weigh 7-8 pounds; a healthy three year old brown from a Maine lake might make 15" and won't weigh two pounds due to the differences in geology and forage bases.

Thanks for the great feedback and info on fly patterns. Maine is the birthplace of some outstanding streamer flies. Cheers

Perhaps in the future, sounds great! Thanks for advice.

Maine is the place to go if you want to catch nice native trout. Georgia can't compare to Maine when it comes to trout fishing.

they were using 5 or 6 weight rods, 9' to 9.6' in length

With water temps in the 40's those fish weren't spawning yet. That doesn't happen until at least 50 degrees, which is nearly always between May 20 and June 10 in most of the waters around Grand Lake Stream. Much depends on the water depth (West Grand Lake, quite deep, warms up later than it's shallow neighbor Big Lake) as well as winter ice pack and weather in March and April, but the bass on are on the beds almost always sometime between May 20 and June 10. Judging by the look of the foliage and the water temps mentioned int he video, I'd guess they were fishing and filming in early May/

Jinney, sorry but we don't. Perhaps some other viewers have recommendations for you? Is there a fly shop in the region to help you?

Yes there is,I asked bass pro but they don't know either thanks tho I am just as happy with you responding😁

I thought there was only one place in Texas to really go trout fishing? North East corner somewhere I think?

Good hot dogs though...

@@newflyfisher haha!! You win this round. I dunno, I just went to grand lake with my 70 dollar reel, 150 dollar rod and 40 dollar fly line. Bacon cheeseburger at the pine tree. That's the more realistic blue collar fishing I'm about.

True, that is not stillwater slow....but slow for river fishing.