Fly Fishing NH's Connecticut Lakes Region

Category: Back Lake

Back Lake Fishing Report- June 4th, 2016

It was a beautiful day in Pittsburg today and Jon & I finished off our day with a gorgeous evening fishing on Back Lake. The fishing was fantastic with a huge Brown Drake hatch coming off that provided great dry fly fishing.

The Brown Drake’s are Here!

That’s a brown drake that landed on a lodge window a few days ago, one of quite a few that were perched there. The brown drake hatch is a precursor to the Cahill  and yellow drake hatches on Back Lake, so it’s time to start getting ready for the hexagenias as well. We expect Mr. Hex to be here in a couple more weeks.

Back Lake Fishing Update: 5/8

 

Seems like the trout finally woke up on Back Lake this weekend, as some of our guests did very well on the resident brook trout by dragging a Winnipesaukee  Smelt (pictured above) on floating fly line around the lake.  We think that other streamers would work well too – the Golden Demon, Gray Ghost, Black Ghost and Mickey Finn are solid choices every spring on Back Lake.