The 5th in Maine was one of my best on the river. Although Florida
Power and Light in all their wisdom are running 3900 cfs and thereby
flooding much of the down-stream folks in NH, fishing was terrific.

I didn't go out this morning. Friends left on the 8:30 boat and it
was too cold and wet to go fishing. So, Jenny and I curled up in
Trail's End cabin and snoozed until lunch. Burned a lot of wood, for
there few things in this world more comforting than a warm cabin with
rain pounding on the roof, and curling up with your dog. Ok, ok, a
warm woman would be better......

The Dam was blown out as most of the river was. At 3900 cfs there are
eddies formed on both sides of the river next to the dam. The one on
the south side is better because it has lots of trickled water from
the dam forming a nice current or two. Some of you may know this as
the Kiddy Pool. During normal flows it contains lots of small 10 -12
inch landlocks that will readilly come to a dry fly. During high
flows, the big brookies and salmon move in.

My first cast with Harry's Killer Caddis dry (#16) hooked me up with a
very nice 14 inch male brookie. Wash the fly, apply some Frog's Fanny
and two casts later I had on a decent (16 inch) salmon. It went on
like this for most of the afternoon. About 3:30 I hooked and landed a
20 inch salmon, immediately followed by a 16+ inch female brookie. I
didn't count, but I must have hooked and landed 20 fish in 2 hours. I
gave my spot to a friend from Bath, ME, along with one of Harry's
flies. Dill too caught some fish.

There were two other guys fishing what little water was fishable, but
neither of them caught the fish that Dill and I did. Harry's fly is
simply amazing.

Cold tonight, but dry. Heading home on Tuesday and won't be back
until late August, so I will give it all my best effort tomorrow.
Gonna be tough going home after so many weeks here, but it'll be nice
to sleep in my own bed, potty on my own potty, eat food cooked by
myself, and, oh yeah, see Jo. d;o)

Hope I didn't hi-jack your thread, Frank, but I just had to tell
someone of today's fishing. sigh

Dave