Fishing the Mountain Rivers of NH

Upper Ellis River NH

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Fishing the Mountain Rivers of NH

by Lee Goldsmith
Lee's Fishing Page

This trip was a long time coming.  I first wanted to fish with Bill in the early summer but he had problems and could not make the day we planned back then.  So we made plans again and this time all worked out as planned.  I got up early and had breakfast and off to meet Bill at First Bridge on the Saco in North Conway.  Made one quick stop at the Eaton Village Store for coffee and I was good for the day.  Got to First Bridge and Bill was already there putting on his boots.  I told him that I would be wet wading with wading shoes and shorts.  He told me he could not do that with the water as cold as it would be that day.  We made one pit stop along the way to the Upper Ellis and arrived at our destination by 8:30 am and got ready to fish.  It was a sunny day but cool and when we got to the water it was very cold, colder then I had expected and the wading was tricky because of the cold water.

Bill fishing over a nice pool

Because the fishing was so slow on the Upper Ellis we decided to move over to the Wildcat River in Jackson NH.  We found a good place to park and walked down river a short distance to start fishing back up stream.  The fishing again was slow but the water was not as cold as the Ellis so we stuck with it knowing we should get into some fish.  After a time Bill placed a hopper over a good run and was rewarded with a beautiful wild brookie.

Bill with a wonderful little wild brookie.

I have attached slide shows of Bill's and My photo's for you to see.

Bill's Photo's

Lee's Photo's

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by LeeGoldsmith

After my service time (4 years active) I went to collage and obtained a Masters degree in Forestry from UNH but never really worked as a forester other then to process data from other foresters using a program to calculate volume of standing timber. From there I became a self taught programmer in FORTRAN and have worked as a programmer for a manufacturing company then got into tech support now working as a test engineer for a small company that does contract work for Hewlett Packard. Lee's Fishing Page has grown from a simple site hosted by my internet provider to being hosted now by TotalChoiceHosting and being built with Geeklog and its many plugins. LFP is now on glFusion and I believe will be for the rest of time. I hope everyone likes the site and will contribute to it.