Fly Fishing World Championships Results 2009

Well, it is official. Here are the results of the 2009 Fly Fishing Championships which concluded today in Scotland.

Individual World Champion:
Ian Barr, England

Team Placing:
1) England
2) France
3) Scotland

The Snikwah Does It Again

My friend, Mary, recently emailed this picture of a fish she caught on the Snikwah.

Final Views of Maine

Cupsuptic River

A beautiful and remote river in the heart of the Rangeley area.

Aziscohos Dam

The Magalloway River at the Aziscohos power generating dam is an amazing place to fish. Jerry and I spent the day there. The first fish were in the 7-12 inch range. Mainly rainbows and a brown. Never hooked up with a salmon. But I have to tell you about one amazing fish I caught. The water was running through the power station at a modest 335, and was was clear in the June sun. I watched a group of 3-4 larger trout cruising a back eddy. They had a fairly predictable pattern of movement which I studied from a higher vantage point for a about 30 minutes. The options were a dry fly or a streamer. I tossed a caddis right to the fish and got no response. I switched to a size 14 Hendrickson dry. After a few casts, boom. I was in a fight. The trout won, breaking off my tippet. Ugh! Plan B was to tye on an olive bead head rabbit strip fly. I dredged that through the pool in a few well-times casts. Boom! In the fight again. I had a huge fish on. After a solid 10 minutes I was able to land one angry 24-inch 'bow. No pictures, but there were witnesses. When I went to remove the hook, I also found my Hendrickson in the corner of his mouth.

Magalloway River

The Magalloway River, which winds though the Rangeley area, is an amazing waterway. Up at the Camp 10 bridge, deep in the woods, about an hour's drive on logging roads, Jerry caught an 18 inch brookie. We both landed a good number of smaller brookies as well. 4 land-locked salmon came to my fly. Actually caught and landed two at once while fishing with a 2-fly rig. They took Czech nymphs in deep fast water. The brook trout sipped dries at the tail outs.

Land Locked Salmon and Brookies

Where have I been? Roaming the wilds of Maine, cruising the deep woods and lost (and not so lost) logging roads in search of land-locked salmon, trout and brookies with my friend Jerry. We drove up to the Rangeley area with his truck and Winnebago, landing at Black Brook Cove Campground as our home base. There we joined the black flies, which I call the defenders of the wilderness, in our quest. First, I must say that the north woods of Maine are matchless in beauty. We had a few encounters with the locals. Moose, that is.