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Smallmouth bass fly fishing on northern New England lakes peaks during a narrow post-spawn window — roughly 60–66°F nearshore — that walks south to north from late May through early July across Lake Champlain (VT/NY), Sebago Lake (ME), Squam Lake (NH), Lake Winnipesaukee (NH), and Moosehead Lake (ME). During this stretch, recovering males feed...

Cape Cod in June is the most beginner-accessible saltwater fly fishery on the Atlantic coast — wadeable from Brewster Flats and the Outer Cape surf, dominated by 2- to 5-inch sand eels, and stocked with slot-sized striped bass (28" to less than 31") from the first week of June through the July 4 holiday. A 9-weight rod, an integrated intermediate line, an...

The "book two years out or don't bother" advice for Skeena River steelhead trips is half right and half misleading. June is when Bulkley, Kispiox, and Babine lodges actually open up — not because demand has cooled but because their deposit calendars (Bulkley River Lodge's hard June 15 balance, Steelhead Valhalla's 120-day full-payment trigger) push a...

Screenshot from HEX: An Unforgettable Hatch The 2026 Hexagenia hatch will peak on Michigan's Au Sable mainstream the last week of June through the first few days of July, with the Pere Marquette running roughly a week earlier and Wisconsin's Bois Brule and Wolf finishing late June through mid-July. Fish the spinner fall at 10:00 to 10:30 p.m., not just the...

From "M37 Trout Routes Tour Ep. 2 Pere Marquette River w/ Alex Lafkas and Russ Maddin" by Christian Gradowski Fishing April is the Pere Marquette's final strong steelhead window before summer, with fresh fish, active spawners, and dropbacks all present in the same reaches through late April. The river runs unregulated from Baldwin to Ludington — no dams...

40,519 shad. That's the number of American shad that passed over the Holyoke fish lift on the Connecticut River on a single day — May 16, 2025 — and it's the kind of number that should re-rank how fly anglers think about this river. The Connecticut River shad run peaks in mid-to-late May when water temperatures clear 62°F, concentrates around three...

From "Double Hand Salmon setup for Iceland" by Fly Fishing by Robert Iceland has a reputation for being intimidating, expensive, and built for experts. The country's best-known rivers — particularly the East and West Rangá in the south — are actually some of the easiest places in the world to fish for Atlantic salmon for the first time. The wading is...

May Tarpon on the Fly Peak tarpon fishing in the Florida Keys runs from late April through early June, with May at the center — a conclusion now backed by acoustic-telemetry data showing adult tarpon hold a 40- to 60-day residency window as sea-surface temperatures climb through 26–28°C (79–82°F). For anglers, that means May is the one month with...

Mother's Day caddis (Brachycentrus occidentalis) cover a paddle on the Yellowstone River in early May | photo from "Tips For Fishing The Mother's Day Caddis Hatch" by Montana Angler Fly Fishing The Mother's Day Caddis hatch peaks in early-to-mid May on four Western rivers — the Yellowstone, lower Madison, Big Hole, and Yakima — when water temperatures...

Eastern green drake | photo by Kevin Hoss The Pennsylvania Green Drake hatch runs from roughly May 15 through June 5 across the state's major freestones — Penns Creek, Slate Run, and Fishing Creek in Clinton County — with a reach-scale window of 7 to 10 days at any given section of river. Imitations are tied on sizes 8 to 10, emergence often extends...