I got together with a good friend today to fish the upper reaches of the Pemi.  I started the day in the float tube on Profile Lake at dawn.

It was very windy but fish were breaking, however they wanted nothing that I was throwing.  I did manage to hook up an a fingerling brookie but not much else.  I met  up with my buddy and we fished a section of the Pemin in Woodstock that I had previously scouted.

Now Shaun has never been big on fly fishing but I did manage to get him to give it a try.  Fortunately he was the first to hook up and he landed a nice wild brookie, about 7".  We spent the rest of the afternoon catching a variety of fish, wild brookies, stockie brookies, and quite a few salmon par.  Despite the low water and high temps all the fish seemed very healthy and were quite active and fought well.

Sorry no pictures I left the camera in the truck and I was not walking back up that damn hill more than once.

The real success of the day was that Shaun now wants to fly fish exclusively, I loaned him my old 5wt and gave him a handfull of flies and set him loose on the north country.  I also told him about this board and the cast of characters that hang about here, so we may have another new member

Shaun's dad was a CO in the northwoods and Shaun was a hut boy when he was in High School.  Now he is a teacher (summers off) and lives at the base of Mt Washington.   He spends a lot of time exploring the backwoods up there and has come accross some killer spots for wild brookies.  Not to mention he is just a fun guy to hang with.