MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
Hey great pics and great post 
Sounds like you two had a blast!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome pictures . Welcome to the site
Nome
Good to see that the post worked this time. Told you I would figure it out. Thats a great post and sure will catch up with you again for a day of fishing.
Lee
Meet up with Lee Goldsmith and on the Ellis and got to chatting, he was off to fish the wildcat, I forgot my waders
, which would have been fine – this is the season to wade without waders, but did not have proper shoes with me. So I had to go back to the house, which is near the wildcat. Also wanted Lee to stop by and check out Moody & meet Hobey.
– several trees jammed together making river trekking further downstream impossible. The jam was at water level to ten feet high.
So, I asked if Lee would like company on the wildcat and off we went. Quick stopped to pick up wading shoes and Lee check out the pond. Zipped up the road to a nice pull-off for the cars and trekked back through my neighbor’s yard to fish the very quiet side of the wildcat. Very skinny water, we located fish right away, lots of holdovers and natives in this section. Sweet little brookies!
Lee was working an Elk Hair Caddis and I was working a Yellow Sally. Beautiful stretches of water, we first worked our way down a secondary channel to some nice pools and found at the end of the second pool a log jam
Secondary meets Primary artery....
Another gem...
So back upstream through the main channel we went and found that the river splits into 5 different little runs, we each chose one and said we would meet up when the river joins back again. I love wild treks, and sharing it with someone who is a kid at heart as well felt very good! Lots of giggles and gleeful smiles!
The landscape
Caddis!
I believe this is a native, fins perfect and correct length. - I also spotted a number of fingerling parr 1" that I'm sure were not stocked in this bushwhack section of the river....
Golden Stonefly handing out on a leaf - his color suggests it hatched a while ago...
Back into some skinny water and we found mostly stockies....
The skinny water led to pocket water:
Fish on....
Great day, a pleasure to share water with you Lee, let me know next time your in town - I'd do it again in a heart beat