Mayflies: .

Black Winged Olive

Hatch: mid April to mid May

Fly size: 14-18

Nymph: 16-18

Immitation: Adams or Hares Ear Nymph

Grey Quill

Hatch: April to September

Fly size: 14-16

Nymph size: 14-18

Immitations: Nymph: Hares ear olive Emerger: Hares Ear wet olive Dun: Grey Quill

Quill Gordon

Hatch: Late April to Early June

Fly Size: 10-14

Immitations: Dark brown hares ear nymph, Hares ear wet, Quill gordon wet, Dun: Quill Gordon

Caddisfly (AKA Sedge)

Cadisflies and their larva and pupal stages are effectively fished when other major hatches arent underway.

Fish a sedge imitation early and late durring the open water fishing season in Maine.

When the pupal stage can be found, fish the imitation on the bottom in a drift, and with a strike indicator.

When the mature pupa is about to hatch, it may get caught at the water's surface and become fish food, particularly in the evening.

The female caddisfly may skim the water to deposit her eggs. Watch for this instinct, and immitate with an Elk Hair Caddis of appropriate size.

Fish a 22-24 dark blue sedge by moving water when females are laying eggs, and a larger version on calm shallow water.

Recently hatched caddisflies return to the water a few times a day to drink.

Types of Cadisflies:

Alder fly (AKA Zebra caddis)

Green Caddis

Dark long horned sedge

Short horned sedge

Spotted sedge (Lays eggs over calm water and has spotted wings)

Stonefly

Stonefly Nymphs require high oxygen levels. Stoneflies wont be found in slow warm water.

Stonefly Nymphs should be fished at a dead drift by banks.

Hatches:

Mid March to May: Little Black Stonefly #16-18

Late March to Late May: Small Brown Stonefly #16-20

June to August: Big Brown Stonefly #8-10

Summer: Salmon Fly #8-12

Other flies:

Edson dark Tiger

Best fished in the spring for Brookies.

Created by William R Edson in Portland in 1929

Ballou Special

Smelt Immitation

Usually trolled

Scoggin Bugger

Created to look like a sculpin, this modified wooly bugger immitates an injured sculpen when fished along the bottom. Sculpin are the #1 food source for river dwelling trout and salmon.

Draggonfly

A popular warm water foodsource, the dragonfly can also be effective on trout when a hatch is about to take place. Hatches for dragonflies peak in mid-july, when nymphs make hteir way to the shore or anywhere they can crawl out of the water.

Wooly Bugger

You can immitate a crayfish by bouncin a woolybugger along the bottom of a rocky bottomed stream or pond by using a weighted bugger.

Black and brown wooly buggers are popular for smallmouthed bass.

Bass Buggs:

Deerhair poppers, which float, are highly effective smallmouth bass flies.

Poppers are fished with jerking or twitching motions as a dry fly.

Make sure to have a few poppers handy to switch to when one becomes water logged.

Fish poppers by aquatic grass, near dropoffs, and by underwater structures such as fallen trees, boulders, and other structures.

A retrieve, pause, retrieve technique, while twitching the fly, can lead to productive small mouth bass fishing.