Fly Fishing the Connecticut River

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Tim Savard. Fly Fishing the Connecticut River

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13 . Connecticut River

Location: Northern New Hampshire, about a 4½-hour ride from Boston or Portland, Maine, and a 3½-hour ride from Manchester, New Hampshire. Full-service airports are available in all three cities.

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2,660 feet elevation, the river begins its 407-mile journey to Long Island Sound. As the river flows south, it passes through a chain of deep, cold bodies of water known as the Connecticut Lakes. Dams below First Connecticut Lake and Lake Francis keep river temps cold right through the summer.

Indian Stream, a tributary to the Connecticut River below Lake Francis in Pittsburg, was once the site of the Republic of Indian Stream. This small community of just a few hundred citizens, with its own government and constitution, was extant in the early to mid-1830s. The existence of this independent republic was due to a border

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