MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
Nice brookies for sure. Its amazing how much bigger they are then in Maine. Must be the longer daylight or size of them skeeters the fish chow down on
Dave
You lived in Maine so I'm sure you know, there are waters where trout have never seen a fly fisherman, and woods where a buck has never seen a hunter. For the man who knows how to navigate the wilds he can find exceptional fishing and hunting.
The lower part of the state, same goes for NH, has been consumed by scissorbeaks sad to say. But the Northern tiers are prime for those who care to venture in.
Quote by: Dave VNice brookies for sure. Its amazing how much bigger they are then in Maine. Must be the longer daylight or size of them skeeters the fish chow down on
David have to disagree with you on the size of Brook trout in Maine. Here are several examples that bear this out:
Maine has some big Brook Trout, all the above fish were caught in one river in the Rangeley area of Maine.
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Lee
Now THOSE are what I call Brook Trout Lee!
Quote by: KodaNow THOSE are what I call Brook Trout Lee!
And the one in my avatar is also around 18 Plus inches.
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Lee
Lee the average Brook trout in Northern Quebec and Labrador are around 5 ponds. I am not saying that Maine doesn't have big Brook Trout . I have seen them first hand myself. Unfortunately I never landed one me personally. I have hooked em but never got them to the bank. Remember I was stationed up at Loring and fished the Allagash Wilderness Waterway area several times Koda I know what your saying about the remote sections of Maine but those areas are becoming far and few sense the introduction of the quads in to the sporting world.
Quote by: Dave V.......... Koda I know what your saying about the remote sections of Maine but those areas are becoming far and few since the introduction of the quads in to the sporting world.
Dave
It was a spell back when I haunted there, they probably have decimated those areas now too. Here in NH we have some darn good fish, but they are in the big rivers and the deep lakes and ponds. Taking those fish happens only one of two ways. Either dragging the bottom in 70 feet or more of water, which pretty much knocks out fly fishing, or, pitch to them when they come in to the shallows to feed just before dark or before first light.
Those deep sanctuaries are vulnerable when the boys drill holes in the ice, but for some reason you don't hear of them really nailing that many big ones through the ice. I suspect it may be due to the fact that the metabolism rate is low then and the fish don't feed as aggressively.
One tool that I use, and I know Ziggy does as well, is Goggle Earth. Not Google map, but the stand alone free download called Google Earth. They have a time line where you can go back a number of years and see what a section of land looked like then, and you can advance the line to current time. This neat feature lets you see where the newest beaver bogs are. If you find new ones that are off the beaten path you'll find Brook Trout havens.
I often times wondered how the Hell they get in those ponds. I'm sure some of the feeder waters may have trout that migrate to the ponds from the brooks. But then I've seen ponds that were spring fed which rules that out. I'm guessing that Osprey and Eagles either drop a fish going from one place to another, or maybe they crap out eggs from the fish. I don't really know. The same may happen with traveling coons from one place to another. All I know is somehow they find their way into those new bogs.
I've seen some that had so many rises it looked like menhaden off the Cape. About any fly dropped on the water is attacked by a half dozen trout at one time. And some of those Brookies get big.
Beaver bogs are some of my favorite places to fish. You get to see deer and moose, beavers & muskrats, mink and otters, and all kinds of critters And it never fails, while your oogling over some spectacle you hear a loud splash and you just missed another trout. Not to worry, he'll be back 
Koda when i was up there back in 93. Irvin gas had pretty much clear cut half the Northern Maine woods. Was a very sad site to see. Then after I left the logging company cut a path right through the rual parts of Maine woods . Right through prime Deer and Moose hunting not to mention making it pretty damn easy to get to those hidden Beaver Bogs. Them quads had no trouble making a mess up there. I hope things have changed but i doubt it
Dave
They won't quite until the whole freakin planet is destroyed. Our numbers as hunters and fishermen shrinks more every year. Seems the young ones want to kill grannies struggling with groceries for extra points on xbox, they even can get extra ammo for killing cops. That garbage should be outlawed. Sad indeed 
Years back we did a float trip down the "Gash" in Maine and got some Brookies almost this big........
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