How to catch Landlocked Atlantic salmon

Landlocked Atlantic salmon feed in 36–64°F water and bite best at 46–58°F. Fish Scouter's season calendar follows them in 6 waters; in October they are at their peak in Maine fresh water, New Hampshire fresh water, Vermont fresh water and 3 more.

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About

The landlocked Atlantic of Maine's big lakes — Sebago, West Grand, Moosehead — and New Hampshire, Vermont and New York: a leaping, smelt-eating salmon that follows the ice-out smelt run into the river mouths. Maine's state fish.

How to fish it

Troll a tandem streamer fly on the surface right after ice-out along the shore and the river mouths; in September, the fly-fishing-only rivers.

What it eats

trolled streamer fliessmeltsmall spoonsnymphs in the fall rivers

Live bait for it

Minnows (fatheads, shiners)Hooked lightly through the lips or behind the dorsal on a #6 to #2 hook under a slip bobber for crappie, perch and walleye; a big golden shiner on a 2/0 to 4/0 for largemouth, pike and stripers.