Fall Fishing in the Great North Woods

It’s been a bit warmer here of late and the colors really exploded this week as well. It’s a postcard out there right now, if you make the time to get out and see the autumn sights. Back Lake has been fishing really well in September, and there’s been a couple of methods that have worked the best.

As noted before, trolling yellow hornbergs or muddler minnows around worked great a couple weeks ago, but this past week, the hot lure was a Colorado (we sell them in the lodge). Robert Dejordy used them all week, with lots of success – the largest was a 3lb. brookie, and there were several double digit days for Bob on the lake.  There’s two kinds of Colorado lures: the gold and silver model worked best on sunny days, while the copper edition cleaned up on the cloudy days. Pretty simple, and there’s a lot of fish in the lake right now. Take it from me, as I watch the explosion of rises each evening just before dark …

On the Trophy Stretch (and other sections of the Connecticut River in Pittsburg), flows are still high, and we’re not sure when the “powers that be” will moderate them. It would be nice to have a little help from them, especially since there’s only two and a half weeks left in the fishing season – oh well!  Still, the Trophy Stretch is fishable, if you’re willing to do what it takes to catch fish. Think heavily weighted nymph up front, with a jailbird or hatching pupa (or other similar soft hackle emerger) trailing, with about 3 or 4 split shot above the first fly. Cast in to the soft water, because that’s where all the fish are with the high flows – in fact, they’re stacked up in these spots. After you catch a few, move on, because the show’s over for that spot .

Rinse, repeat, you get the idea …

Less than three weeks left in the 2011 Fishing Season – get up here if you haven’t already!