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Fly Fishing NH's Connecticut Lakes Region

Year: 2021

Anticipation

Much like that old Heinz 57 ketchup commercial (I realize I’m dating myself with this reference, but if you’re a child of the late sixties or seventies, you might remember this particular ad campaign), it’s only a matter of hours before the goodness in the bottle finally drips out to start the new fishing season on the Connecticut River on January 1. There’s a few of us up here that have been waiting anxiously, really ever since the waning of daylight that closed the season back on October 15.

December 31, 2021
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Connecticut River brook trout

Bridge Blather from Guest Bloggers

Disclaimer: As some of you may know, I have been roaming the hillsides and alder runs of northern New Hampshire and Vermont lately in search of ruffed grouse and woodcock for my guiding clients. Therefore, I cannot devote the copious amount of time to the Fishing Blog it takes to give the kind of knowledgeable advice that our readers continue to visit this site for. In my stead, Tall Timber guests Jason Kauppi and Matt Sisk generously offered to dispense their recommendations and wisdom to our faithful readers during this final week of the fishing season. Enjoy …

October 6, 2021
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Back Lake October Caddis

It’s the Great Pumpkin! No, it’s the October Caddis …

The last hatch of supersized bugs for this season has started on Back Lake, as the “October Caddis” have been making their appearance this week. Unlike the much better known and anticipated Hexagenia hatch, October Caddis (also known as fall caddis or the giant orange sedge) come off in a sporadic fashion most of the fall until our fishing season ends on October 15.

September 18, 2021
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Fishing with Mickey Cunliffe

September Musings

It’s been a while since the last post, and I apologize for that. There’s a couple of reasons for this. Most of my time recently has been spent in the grouse woods of northern New Hampshire and Vermont, getting the dogs and myself tuned up for what should be a very good grouse season … that’s one excuse, and a very good one at that. The other is that water conditions have remained largely unchanged on the upper Connecticut River. In other words, the river is low and the fishing at times has been tough.

September 8, 2021
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Trout fishing in Pittsburg NH

Upper Connecticut River Fishing Report: 8/12

Not too many earth shattering revelations coming in this post, dear readers. The river flows are exactly the same as they have been all summer long (180 CFS out of Murphy, 95 CFS out of First Lake Dam, and 49 CFS out of Second Lake Dam), the trout and salmon that are in the various stretches have literally “seen it all”, and today it was pretty warm in the north country, but probably not nearly as warm as where you are …

August 12, 2021
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Bass fishing on Back Lake, Pittsburg NH

A little love for bass …

This is going to be a controversial post for all of the trout snobs out there. It concerns the most recent addition to our Back Lake denizens of the deep: smallmouth and largemouth bass. Both species were illegally introduced to Back Lake at least twenty years ago, and at first it appeared to merely be a rumor of what had happened, but slowly we came to realize that there were indeed some of them residing, and flourishing, in Back Lake.

July 31, 2021
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