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Sandy MacGregor (Mtranger)
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Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 3:38 am: | |
Maine’s Upper Androscoggin River Report
Water Temp 59.7 flow Rate 2440 CFS @ Mead Westvaco In Rumford.
This past week of Guiding was excellent! Not so much because the fishing was good, but because the time spent on the water with the clients was so good.
My clients took some nice fish. One a big Rainbow 20 inches long that fell to a big streamer fished along a seam line in an eddy. They took some mid sized Browns that added to the mix as well. We found a fat Hen Brown about 19 inches lying dead in an eddy against shore. She hadn’t been dead long. A few days maybe, and with no way of telling why she died. Regardless nothing lives forever. I just hope she got to pass on her seed. . She was a real beauty! I put her up on shore so that a raccoon or some other predator could help finish the cycle of life for her.
The good part of the week was that every day we were the only ones on the water and saw Eagles soar low over the river against a backdrop of scarlet and gold colors on the sun dappled Ridges.
One day we saw a fast stepping big eight-point Buck working a rub line along the riverbank with out a clue that we were there. I got video footage of the buck as we drifted by and he finally did see us, but he never moved and went back to his very important business. I think he was focused on the up coming rut and the HOT dates that will be as sure a thing as one can get! If you get lucky and I mean REALLY LUCKY for only two months out of the year who can blame him for being distracted. Now that I think of it he probably gets it more than the rest of us do in a year.... DAMN!
As I get older and some would say, not much wiser. These are the types of days that become the important part of guiding. Good days had by all. That is why I Guide and why I love my job!
“A man should believe in something.... I believe I’ll go Fishing!”
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Sandy MacGregor (Mtranger)
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Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 3:34 am: | |
Maine’s Androscoggin River Report
Water temp 63.46 F Flow Rate 1152 cfs @ Mead Westvaco in Rumford
I guided yesterday with two clients Jamie Gold and Jim Bullard. We were after smallies below Rumford working From My 17 ft. custom Built Drift boat. We were on the water at seven. I rowed up river to a riffle just above the jct. of the Swift River and the Androscoggin. The morning fog started to rise as I positioned the boat along a seam between the fast current and a large eddy below the riffle. I dropped anchor and Jim had a strike on the first cast! He had a hook up on the next cast with Jamie taking a fish almost as fast. This was the start of a seventy fish day that we all will remember fondly.
Jamie and Jim Were using tube baits ,grubs ,and clousers. We steadily moved down river working all the Rock structure there was. They picked up fish all morning long. Changing equipment if the fishing slowed.
By mid day the fishing was the slowest, but fish were still being taken. We broke for lunch and talked about how the fishing compared to the Rivers that Jim and Jamie fish near home in the
Washington D.C. area. Both agreed that the Androscoggin River Smallies were heavier for their length and fought HARDER!
I have never fished for Smallmouth any where else so this fishery is what I must go by. I am a fly fisherman and fish Smallies as much as possible The best days I personally have had have been Fifty strikes and thirty-five to forty fish boated using weighted streamer patterns. I could catch more but my arm gets too sore to hold the Rod! That is a good problem to have.
After lunch we continued down river . The fishing picked up again as the afternoon progressed.
We had to move through some areas that had no structure but caught some fish regardless. The biggest fish were taken in the early evening. Both Jamie and Jim took three pound fish . Jim’s being the largest of the day . It must of been at least three and a half pounds maybe more! The bass averaged. 1.5 to 2 lb with at least six topping Three plus lbs.
“ A man should believe in something... I believe I’ll go Fishing”
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