North Country Angling: Salmon time on the Androscoggin

While some of us like to fish for landlocked salmon in lakes, there are those who choose to angle for salmon in rivers. There are many rivers in New Hampshire that have landlocked salmon. The Merrymeeting, the Bearcamp, the upper Connecticut just to mention a few. These rivers are smaller and can succumb to overcrowding very quickly.

Fortunately, for those of us here in the Mount Washington Valley, we can make the drive to our big river, the Androscoggin. The name Androscoggin comes from the Abenaki word amascogin which means “fish come in the spring.” The Abenaki were right as the time to catch landlocked salmon in the ‘Andro’ is the spring. It is prime time.