June7,2003. What A Day!!!4:30 am my fishing buddy Bruce is up stairs making coffee. No problem on any other day but I celebrated the home coming of my friends son from Iraq. Jack Daniels really takes its toll when you go to bed at 12:00 am and get up at 4:30. I though it would be the day from hell. In the car off we go to Rangely lakes region. On the way to the Kennebago River we stop at Rivers Edge sports shop for some local info. The owner call around to check the river flows. After all the rain most of the rivers were high except one… After 30 minute drive and some walking we got to our spot. Gear ready off we go, fishing every pool every rock getting eaten alive and then it started… I look down stream and see a fish rising very close to shore. I tie my nymph rig w a large yellow strike indicator hide behind a rock and make a cast boom a huge salmon hits the strike indicator flies in the trees now I re tie only this time I put on a lg #10 stimulator w/a # 18 prince nymph to the bend in the hook w/5 ft. of leader. First cast BOOM 20” brookie I made a bad set and off he goes. 10 minutes goes by same pool I cast and BOOM a 29-30 inch salmon hit the prince with the help of Bruce we land him. Time for lunch we go to another part of the river. I walk down to a pool behind this falling down camp 1st cast I picked up 2& a half lb. 20” brookie. Bruce and I walk down the river I see a pool in the middle very hard to wade to as I’m looking I see 2 fish feeding behind this big rock what the hell I got to try so after a wile I get to the middle 2 or 3 cast and BOOM big male brook trout over 3lbs++ filled my net. All the flies got stuck in my net so I had to re tie . I’m looking at the pool again and see the second trout still rising 4 or 5 casts and the correct drift BOOM another 3 lb trout. What a day all in all I landed 8 brookies the smallest 18” and 1 salmon. Bruce also landed 4 brookies a 1 salmon ( not quite as big) By far this was the best bay of fishing in Maine I ever had! What a Day!!! See ya on the river… joe-m
