Upper Dam Pool

This is a large pool below upper dam and is full of landlocked salmon and brook trout.  It’s the home of Carrie Stevens, the grey ghost and other famous streamers and legends.

Upper dam pool is often the first place a flyfisherman will visit when they come to the Rangeley area.Its the place everyone has heard of,mostly because of  Carrie Stevens and her famous fly. Sometimes I wonder how many thousands of people have stood along the shore of the pool and swung a Greyghost streamer thru the current.The pool is very broad with a strong current down the center of the pool,creating two large back eddies and room for dozens of  anglers to fish.There are lots of big fish in the pool and sometimes you can see them in the water by the cribwork of the dam.Streamers are fished alot in the big current and dries along the seams and quite edges.The bluewinged olive seems to always be in the air and small nymphes and emergers are a good way to fish an olive hatch. A good way to ” cover all the bases” is to fish a streamer or big dry with a small mayfly nymph as a dropper. The pool is also a very pretty place to fish with good views,rustic buildings and wildlife.If you take a walk across the dam and and follow the tote road you will come to Carrie Stevens home where she lived and ran her fly business from.