Angling Publications - Index

Angling Publications - april2008 - Index

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The Roach River—20 miles northeast of Greenville,
Maine—offers 6.5 miles of fly-fishing-only, catch-and-release
water. This is a quality, remote stream, all the way from its beginnings
at First Roach Pond in Kokadjo to its mouth at Spencer Bay
on Moosehead Lake. It’s a small river with trees extending right to
the waters edge, hardly 40 feet across, where wading is the only way
to fish and water flows through a protected corridor within paper
company land. There are unimproved logging roads and trails, but
it’s always a walk to the water. Considering the river’s popularity,
only the most difficult pools to access can be counted on to provide
solitude, in the company of moose and the occasional black bear.