Fly Fishing the Kennebec River

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Bob Mallard. Fly Fishing the Kennebec River

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5 . Kennebec River

Location: Central Maine, about a 1-hour ride from Bangor, a 2-hour ride from Portland, Maine; a 3½-hour ride from Boston, Massachusetts; and a 3½-hour ride from Manchester, New Hampshire. Full-service airports are available in all four cities.

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Gadabout Gaddis, aka The Flying Fisherman, filmed his TV show in the 1960s and 1970s on the banks of the river—a small grass airport bears his name. The Kennebec was also the site of one of the first major dam removal projects in the country. The removal of Edwards Dam in Augusta opened up 17 miles of river to anadromous alewives, striped bass, sturgeon, and endangered Atlantic salmon.

The section of Kennebec of most interest to fly fishers lies between Harris Dam and Madison. Here the Kennebec is basically four rivers in one. In a stretch of roughly 50 miles—interrupted by several impoundments—there are four dams: Harris, Wyman, Williams, and Abnaki. Below each is a tailwater. Each tailwater is significantly different. The topography, size, flow regime, insect life, and even species of salmonids change.

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