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  • Fly fishing in the shadow of Baxter State Park and Mount Katahdin on the West Branch Penobscot for landlocked salmon.

    West Branch Penobscot - Maine

    The West Branch Penobscot River near Millinocket, Maine flows from Ripogenus Dam through rapids and pools to support world-class landlocked salmon and native brook trout. It offers year-round controlled cold-water...

    West Branch Penobscot - Maine

    The West Branch Penobscot River near Millinocket, Maine flows from Ripogenus Dam through rapids and pools to support world-class landlocked salmon and native brook trout. It offers year-round controlled cold-water...

  • Char Ponds - Maine

    Char Ponds - Maine

    Maine’s remote kettle ponds offer one of the rarest angling opportunities in the lower 48: wild Arctic charr, or "bluebacks," found in just 14 ponds statewide. These deep, cold-water fish...

    Char Ponds - Maine

    Maine’s remote kettle ponds offer one of the rarest angling opportunities in the lower 48: wild Arctic charr, or "bluebacks," found in just 14 ponds statewide. These deep, cold-water fish...

  • Dead River in Maine fly fishing guide service

    Dead River - Maine

    The Dead River in western Maine flows from Flagstaff Lake through rugged, remote terrain and supports healthy populations of native brook trout and landlocked salmon. Special fly-fishing-only regulations combined with...

    Dead River - Maine

    The Dead River in western Maine flows from Flagstaff Lake through rugged, remote terrain and supports healthy populations of native brook trout and landlocked salmon. Special fly-fishing-only regulations combined with...

  • Mad River in Vermont fly fishing guide service

    Mad River - Vermont

    The Mad River in central Vermont flows through the Green Mountains, offering wild brook trout and stocked browns and rainbows in a classic freestone environment. Best fished in spring and...

    Mad River - Vermont

    The Mad River in central Vermont flows through the Green Mountains, offering wild brook trout and stocked browns and rainbows in a classic freestone environment. Best fished in spring and...

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Flies of the Month

These are the best producing flies of our last few fly outings. Grab a few of the tried-and-true and hit the water!

Maine Classics

Always in vogue, always on sale. These flies are tried and true, tested over generations of Mainers.

Streamers

Streamers are the every day fly, the ol' faithful, the middie you can trust.

Meant to imitate baitfish, leeches, and a variety of other unknowable trout urges, they work and can work BIG. Heavy weight for deep pools, light and sparse for topwater,  mid-weight for bank slapping.

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Nymphs

Meant to hang off a larger point or tandem setup, these nymph patterns can also be fished on light tippet as single point flies, on the swing or a slow sink.

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Emergers

Flies that suggest emerging pupae as insects rise through the water columns. More movement, more 'buggy-ness', more hookups.

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Protect Your Home Waters

  • Trout Unlimited

    Trout Unlimited is the nation’s leading conservation organization working to care for and recover rivers and streams and their trout and salmon populations. Founded by a band of Michigan anglers in 1959, we have grown into a national organization with more than 350 staff, 400 chapters and 300,000 members and supporters.

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  • Native Fish Coalition

    Native Fish Coalition was founded in 2017. We are a nonpartisan, apolitical, grassroots, donor-funded, primarily volunteer, 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and restoration of wild native fish.

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  • Atlantic Salmon Federation

    We are a world-leading science and advocacy organization with headquarters in New Brunswick, Canada. Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) is a family of more than 25,000 members and volunteers that conduct research, perform complex river restoration projects, and advocate for legislation that will help to protect wild Atlantic salmon.

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