2012 Maine Free Family Fishing Festival

The Upper Andro Anglers Alliance in co-operation with Trout Unlimited will host a free family fishing festival on Saturday, June 2. The festival will be held at Angevine Park on the North Road in Bethel, from 9 am to 2 pm, rain or shine. Free casting workshops and fly-tying instruction will be available throughout the day.

Local Maine guides and members of the Mollyockett Chapter of Trout Unlimited will teach the workshops. Instruction will include both spin casting and fly casting for older youth and parents. Maine’s Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program will supply complimentary rods and reels for use at the festival. Read the story »

Fly Tying Contest to Highlight Fishing Expo

HMH Vises is sponsoring a Fly Tying Contest for all ages at the Western Maine Fly Fishing Expo scheduled for March 24 at The Bethel Inn Resort Conference Center in Bethel, Maine. An HMH Vise will be presented to the winners of the youth, 15 and unde,r age division, and the open age division of 16 and older. Tyers must tie either a Black Ghost or a Grey Ghost, two classic western Maine streamer flies. Contest preliminaries will be open from 9:30 am to 11 am and the finals from noon to 2 pm. Materials for the finals will be supplied by North Country Angler and Featherside Flies. Complete rules for the contest are available on line at www.westernmaineflyfishingexpo.com. Read the story »

UPPER ANDRO ANGLERS ALLIANCE AND OXFORD HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS TO CLEAN UP ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER

As part of National River Cleanup, members of the Upper Andro Anglers Alliance and students from the Experiential Learning Team at Oxford Hills Middle School will clean up a section of the Androscoggin River from Newt’s Landing in West Bethel to Davis Park in Bethel on Tuesday, May 22. Students, ages 12-15, will float down the river in rafts armed with garbage bags and towing garbage scow rafts to collect debris along the riverbanks. The clean-up flotilla will launch at 9 am from Newt’s Landing and take out at Davis Park. Community members are welcome to help clean-up this and other stretches of the river. The town of Bethel will provide trash collection at Davis Park and deliver to the town’s solid waste facility.

Magic Falls Rafting Co. of West Forks, Maine will provide rafts and garbage scows. Immediately following the clean-up, lunch will be provided by the staff of Pleasant River Campground at Davis Park. Read the story »

Western Maine Fly Fishing Show Success

The Western Maine Fly Fishing Show held recently in Bethel, Maine at the Bethel Inn, was deemed “really successful” by Upper Andro Angler Alliance’s Wende Gray.

For photos and comments by Kevin Mckay about the show, please visit the MaineFlyFish website.

Authors, Artists and Artisans at Fly Fishing Expo

The Western Maine Fly Fishing Expo scheduled from 9:30 am to 4 pm Saturday, March 24 at the Bethel Inn Conference Center in Bethel will feature authors, artists and artisans along with outfitters, guides and sporting camps.

Authors include Robert Romano, author of several novels about the Rangeley Lakes region including “North of Easie”; Topher Browne, Patagonia Fishing Ambassador and author of an upcoming book on the Atlantic salmon; Kathy Scott, author of “Brook Trout Forest” and David Tibbetts, watercolorist and author of “Tight Lines”. Artist John Swan of Portland will exhibit his fine art watercolors and Gene Bahr his 3-D and wall-mounted fish carvings and bronzes. Terry Walsh, a jeweler from Maine’s Midcoast will have his fine pendants on display. Selene Dumaine, Ed Muzeroll, Sharon Wright and Charles Mann will be demonstrating the fine craft of fly tying. David van Burgel and Jim Becker will be building Bamboo Rods. Film maker Carter Davidson of Gray Ghost Productions will be showing excerpts from his fishing films “The One” “East by Northeast” and “The Good Life”.

Information on the expo is available on line at www.westernmaineflyfishingexpo.com or by phoning the Upper Andro Anglers Alliance at 207-824-3694.

Grayghost Prod. To Release Fly Fishing Movie – “East by Northeast”

We’ve all been waiting anxiously for the brand new production of the fly fishing movie, “East by Northeast”, created by Carter Davidson and his able staff at Grayghost Productions, LLC.

Due to be released this month, the following movie trailer has been made available to wet our appetites.

Tom Remington