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Wild male brook trout in Fall colors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salmon and Trout Fishing

We are on pristine Munsungun Lake (four miles long, 123 feet deep) which is our primary fishing water for native brook trout, landlocked salmon and lake trout.  We have some of the best landlocked salmon fishing in Maine.  Fly fishing in Maine does not get any better than here for wild brook trout.  Munsungun Lake is one of the top Five Waters for Landlocked Salmon and the Top Ten Waters for Brook Trout (Maine Sportsman, April, June 1997).  The action begins fast and furious at ice out the first week in May when salmon trolling smelt and smelt patterns can bring 20-30 fish to the boat a day.  Sizes average from 15 to 22 inches and larger, with weights up to five pounds.  This activity continues through September, with only a brief slowdown in August when the waters are warmer.  Most are caught by trolling monofilament line, sinking fly line, and lead line with bait as well as spinners, spoons and smelt pattern flies (all available at camp).

Surrounding Munsungun Lake are numerous remote fly casting only ponds that produce wild brook trout from ten inches to five pounds!  June and early July are great for dry fly casting, August is a wet line, nymph casting month, and September remains a fantastic month to catch numerous brookies in their full spawning colors on top or just under.   We have canoes on these remote ponds that are accessed by four wheel drive and on foot, or by float plane.  A guide is highly recommended for all or part of your stay to enjoy these waters that are considered by many to be the last vestige of trophy wild and native brook trout in America.

The Bradford Camps has something special to offer the world class angler: the Blueback Trout. This is an arctic charr that has remained in certain ponds in Maine since the last receding ice age. Currently there are only ten ponds that hold this species in the world! Beautiful, sleek, strong and wild, the blueback can be caught on lures and flies throughout the summer on one of our remote outpost camp ponds.

 

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