Adirondack Landlock Salmon

[Scott]

I fished around the Western mountains of Maine during the last week of fishing season. The weather was unusually warm, which kept water temps too high to get the fish to move. A strong storm which move through dumped over two inches of rain, but it did not bring the flows up too much. Water temps didn't go below 60 until the last day of the season, and most of the salmon were still holding in deeper water at the river mouths. So while the fishing was great as always, the catching was poor.

I did have one very good day targeting brookies, and landed my largest yet - a male just over 19" in full color and fat too - it had to be at least 2-1/2 - 3 lbs. I landed 5 brookies that morning, and the smallest was a 15" female, the rest were males between 16-18". All on streamers too.

A 17 inch male:



Patterns that worked this year were old reliables - like the Black Ghost, Grey Ghost, etc. but by far the most successful pattern for me was