Fly Fishing the Saco River

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Bill Thompson. Fly Fishing the Saco River

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16 . Saco River

Location: Northeast New Hampshire, about a 3-hour ride from Boston, Massachusetts; about a 1½-hour ride from Portland, Maine and Manchester, New Hampshire. Full-service airports are available in all three cities.

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The Saco River has long been a destination for artists, writers, and anglers. In the 1800s, landscape artists came to the area to capture the beauty of the Saco Valley, giving rise to the White Mountain School of Art. Benjamin Champney, a New Hampshire native, is considered by many to be the founder of the movement. Today you can still recognize the

locations of many of his paintings, as the valley has changed little. John Greenleaf Whittier and Nathanial Hawthorne traveled extensively in the White Mountains and strived to capture their mystery and legend in prose and poetry. Over the centuries, anglers have also come to the Valley in search of the quality trout fishing.

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