West Grand Lake

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Grand Lake Stream at Grand Lake Stream, Maine, 5 mi from the lake.

118cfsat build, Nov 12, 12 PM MT

The typical week here, from 10 years of record: 115 cfs to 159 cfs, around 125 cfs.

Also gauged at Old Stream near Wesley, Maine: 19 cfs, Nov 12.

The season, November

Usually workable this week. Pick your window and fish it well.

• Midgessizes 18 to 22
• Small eggs and worms
• Pheasant tail and zebra midge nymphsunder an indicator

Typical for the week over 10 years: 115 to 159 cfs. Running 118 cfs today, inside that range. Flows are not forecast; check the gauge the day before.

Brown Trout are spawning (October to December). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Brook Trout are spawning (September to November). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Mountain Whitefish are spawning (October to December). The egg bite behind spawning whitefish is the best winter nymphing of the year: an egg pattern below the riffles.

• Egg patterns in the runs below the spawning gravel, never on it.

Written by the app's rules engine from the calendar, the gauge record and the snowpack, not by hand, so it says only what the data says. The weather for the week comes with the app.

Fly shops on this water

• Weatherby's Grand Lake StreamWebsite

Nearby waters

• Grand Lake Stream6 mi
• Big Lake8 mi
• Penobscot River42 mi

Every Maine water