Trip planning ideas for August?

[andrewb]

Greetings from Oregon! My son is doing his summer term at Dartmouth this year so I'm planning a visit sometime in August. Any suggestions for stream fishing around Hanover &/or Moosilauke?

FYI we have a similar forum out here at westfly.com. The oregon board is at
http://www.westfly.com/forum/ultimatebb.php?ubb=forum;f=4
and is very active. It is fabulous resource and great way to build community.

Best wishes & thanks for any tips,

Andrew

[fessiewig]

By the time you are ready to plan the trip we will have regular fishing reports from that area on FFiNH. There are several "streams" you could fish depending on conditions at that time. August is not exactly the best time to be fishing for "cold water" species.

B-T-W, how did you come across FFiNH?

[petegas]

try the mascoma over in enfield near hanover, near moosilauke there is the baker in warren.

[Salmon Slayer]

I'm a college student and i'll be staying about 20 minutes away from dartmouth this summer. I'm pretty familiar with the waters in the area, so if you guys ever want to take a trip let me know.

[andrewb]

hi Everyone -- this is great! Petegas & Salmon Slayer, the info & offers of aid are much appreciated, many thanks.

Fessiewig, re finding your forum... hmmm, that was a whole day ago, but I think I got started when somebody sent me the NH tourism division's online newsletter. naturally i started looking for "fishing' info, which was mainly about boat ramps, but it inspired a Google search.

Thanks again, everyone.

Andrew

[andrewb]

Fessiewig -- good point about August being a slack time for salmonids. That's OK, I'm not averse to fishing for smallmouth!

Best,

Andrew

[LeeG]

Andrew for sure you need to check out any of the small mountain streams in NH that time of year. They stay cold and most have a population of brooktrout (native) that are small to medium size, 4 inch to 10 inches, but let me tell you they are fun to catch. Use small Elk hair Caddis and you will have a ball. The other nice thing about that time of year is that you don't need boots, wet wade with sneekers and shorts.

Lee

P.S. Andrew check out my site and forum at the link below my signiture.

[andrewb]

Thanks, Lee -- sounds encouraging. I love hiking/wet wading & fishing up the small streams, & have a little 6' 2-piece that's great for this kind of thing; 4 weight so it can handle bigger fish in a pinch. :-)

Re flies, the #16 EHC definitely does the job out here also. Terrestrials are good too -- we have a lot of beetles, ants, and yellowjackets on the more forested west slope of the Cascades. In fact, my very favorite all-purpose fly is a stripped-down yellowjacket pattern; see http://brownhackle.blogspot.com/2005/02/brown-hackle-bee.html

Here's another one that is easy to tie, easy to see, & has caught a lot of fish in small streams & pocket water:
http://brownhackle.blogspot.com/2005/02/pocket-pal.html
(sorry, still working on some additional photos)

Best,

Andrew

[fessiewig]

When I wet wade I use my wader boots. The felt soles really come in handy.