A Full Day of Fishing

Ellis River Brook Trout

A Full Day of Fishing
by: Lee Goldsmith
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The day started early for me 5:45am.  First stop was to see what was happening on the South River in Effingham New Hampshire.  When I got there I was surprised to see how low the river was.  Just a few days earlier it was flowing much better, must have shut up the dam some on Provence Lake.  Fished for a short time and managed one stocked Brook Trout (No Picture).  With the flow low I headed up to the Saco to give it a try.  Once there I dawned my waders and off down to the glide by the Golf Course.  When I arrived there were three others on the glide (plenty of room for lots of people on this glide).  When I got to them I realized that one was Chris Major who I have fished with before on the glide.  One of the others was Doug who I have met on the Wildcat River in Jackson.  Long story short the fishing was very slow for me, few fish rising so I tried a Hornburg and did manage one fish to come up and take a look, but no hookup.  Stayed a while but then around 11:00am headed back and removed my waders and off to the North Country Angler.  I discovered that one of the hooks on one of my new wadding shoes had popped out.  I showed Janet and said they would send them back to Simms but to me that would take to long to get them back.  Janet then suggested taking the boot to Limmers to see if they could fix it.  Janet called and they said send him up, so off I went and got my boot fixed for $2.50, that beats waiting on Simms to fix it.  

Next stop was the Wildcat River, but before going to the Wildcat I stopped at the warehouse pool on the Ellis, Janet had said they had stocked it for the first time on Fri.  The pool was full of fish so I figured I may return.  Stopped at the Ski House pool on the Wildcat and managed many strikes and landed my first Wildcat fish of the year.

First Fish

Beautiful Wild Brook Trout

Nice last fish of the day

Thanks
Lee

by LeeGoldsmith

After my service time (4 years active) I went to collage and obtained a Masters degree in Forestry from UNH but never really worked as a forester other then to process data from other foresters using a program to calculate volume of standing timber. From there I became a self taught programmer in FORTRAN and have worked as a programmer for a manufacturing company then got into tech support now working as a test engineer for a small company that does contract work for Hewlett Packard. Lee's Fishing Page has grown from a simple site hosted by my internet provider to being hosted now by TotalChoiceHosting and being built with Geeklog and its many plugins. LFP is now on glFusion and I believe will be for the rest of time. I hope everyone likes the site and will contribute to it.