Maine Brook Trout VideoHi-Speed Only
It is days like today that I love being from Maine. Marshall, Joey and I spent the evening fly fishing for absolutely beautiful Brook Trout. The colors on the fish were astounding and the crystal clear water enhanced the photography potentials. We caught an unbelievable amount of fish on all sorts of patterns (black woolies, copper johns, black ghosts…) The Brookies were aggressively chasing down anything that came within their space. Marshall and I worked together to carefully photograph several fish under these perfect conditions and the results are visible in the accompanying video. The fish were in all sorts of runs and they were on the move. Joey showed up and tied on a black wooly bugger, he had a few strikes but he quickly went to the Macomber set-up. Double nymph rig – emerger with copper john trailer. Oh yeah, I have seen joe-m pull it out on several rivers and it always does the trick. I was praying that Joey got some fish after falling into the Kennebec the other night. Joey dialed right into the fish and got found his groove. He hooked into several nice Brook Trout as I chased a Large Salmon in a back eddy with a big Black Ghost. The water was crystal clear and I saw the Salmon come up from the bottom and attack my fly. He was moving so fast and just kinda bumped it out of agression. I never got the Salmon to take, but I know where he lives. Marshall had success on streamer and nymph patterns as well. Orange was his color of choice for the Salmon. It was just a great fall evening of Maine fly fishing. The air was cool, the water was 58 degrees and the skies were a bit cloudy. We found the fish in the deep pools, the shallow riffles and everything in between. I was sightfishing to several fish and most times saw the fish take my flies. Just a great fall day, fishing for Maine’s trademark fish. period.
Wow!! jeremy…great photos!!Thumbs up!!A..
i absolutely can not take all the credit – Marshall Demott and I worked together to capture the images. In order to get fish without hands in the pictures and really nice shots you need two people – especially for the underwater photography. Marshall and I make a good team – most of all because we have fun catching, photographing and relasing the fish. The thing is – I think we are starting to enjoy the photography as much as the fly fishing. It is truly an art – you start to get an idea of what will and won’t work (angles/light/fish and water characteristics) after 10,000 or so photos. gotta love digital – that kind of processing could get fairly costly if it were 35mm film. how are things in Quebec? Getting cold? Are you still Atlantic Salmon Fishing?
Jeremy, Absolutely beautiful photos, incredible quality. I could almost feel the rod in my hand when I looked at the one of the trout with the black ghost in his mouth. You have a connection with the water,the surroundings, and of course the fish. Great work……
I must get you guys up here in Canada next Summer!!
Fishing has ended September 30th. No snow yet, but the mornings are very cold and frosty!!
This time of year is “Moose Hunting” season!
(no thanks, I’m not into that!! )
It is also time for the pre-season draws (Nov 1) for 2005 fishing..So that’s what I’m doing these days
Cheers!.
A…
This site just keeps getting better!! NICE
For some reason the link did not work “could not find page”, but the above photos are awesome!
By the way, I like the song – couldn’t find a place to say so on that link, so I’ll say it here.
~Mike