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Lots of great color there, and appears to be a good time as well. Envious,
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Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
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Looks like a great time.
Nice pics.
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Brookies are the fish.. Totally AWESOME!!! Some day if I live long enough, I must try the Maine fishing.. Best wishes, and thanks for the outstanding photos..
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Matt, Awesome Brookie pictures. Thanks for showing the fly. Mike C
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Pretty fish!
What part of Maine?
I used to fish for trout and landlocked salmon in the streams in the Rangley area. One of my favorite streams was the connection between Parmachenee and Aziscohos Lakes.
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Very very nice! My wife and I fished out of an old Maine camp several years ago for Brookies and Landlocks and had a ball. http://www.lakewoodcamps.com/
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These are Moosehead lake region fish. All wild, no stocked fish there.
Headed to Grand Lake Stream tomorrow to chase salmon spawn there because it's still open for fishing. Hopefully have some pictures of colored up salmon. Not holding my breath, water is dangerously low.
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Nice looking fish! Thanks for posting these.
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I'm surprised not to see more fall color on the deciduous trees in your pictures.
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Beautiful pics! Thanks for sharing.
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By far my favorite trout!! Congrats
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I miss that River and fishing in general in Maine
Used to make a few trips up north andfish every year when I lived in NYC
Great pics of fall spawning colors
Boy I remember those land locked salmon and how they jumped and fought Thanks
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Years ago, my favorite brookie flyfishing area was Red Feather, CO. Loved to see those beautiful spawning colors. My favorite fish to eat.
That Maine river there is beautiful. Nice fish!
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too bad photobucket destroyed your photos. I would have liked to have seen them!
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I'll see if I can dig the pictures up and repost them. It's starting to be that time of year again for colored up brookies. I'll have some new ones in a few weeks
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From a hike in mountain lake a few weeks ago starting to color up. Great eating
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Excellent.. We are off on a hunting,camping, fishing trip on Thurs.. Hope to get enough brookies for a meal.. Only got one mess this summer..
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3-4 inches of rain here since Sunday has broght the rivers up nicely. The male salmon I have been catching in the lakes have kypes now and the brookies are getting that Fall coloring. I'm ready
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Still pretty hot in central Maine. I'll be up around Moosehead the last couple weeks of September and then Grand Lake Stream mid October. It won't be long. The best time of the year.
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I live along the Aroostook River and it went from bone dry to blown out. Not wadable right now.
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Thanks for reposting. Beautiful fish.
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With the exception of some of the TN darters, the Brookies are the most beautif fish I know of in the US of A. They have fallen out of grace with many of the western fishery managers but I like them and Browns too.
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