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Stick with it. It takes some people a year of fishing to catch their first trout on a fly...some, even longer. In the meantime, if you enjoy simply being out on the water and taking in the scenery while learning how to get a little less clumsy when you look for fish or cast your line, you're an angler. Catching a fish is just a particularly exceptional sort of icing, on a cake that is as a rule mighty tasty to begin with.

Hooking a fish is almost beside the point. Until it happens. Which it will, if you stay at it long enough.

The most important thing is to fish where the trout are, a lot. Especially very early and very late in the day, and before it gets too hot out. A cloudy day is a definite help.

Fortunately, you live in Maine. That means that you're at least close to all kinds of good fishing- including trout, and even landlocked salmon.

Other species of fish are easier to catch on the fly- especially sunfish, perch, and pickerel. Bass are harder to catch than sunfish, easier to catch than salmon or trout.

There's a midnight mayfly hatch* in July on some lakes in southern Maine that has to be experienced to be believed, and huge schools of white perch and other fish come to the surface to feed. They boil the water. They mostly eat the nymphs, right below the surface as they're emerging. If you throw a large brown nymph tied on a #10 3x hook out there, you will catch fish after fish.

Be careful when you take the hook out, especially if you plan to release your catch. Pinch down the barbs on your hooks (this really does help, and you will still land fish), use wet hands to handle the fish, and don't squeeze. Best to grab bass by the lower jaw. Best to fold down the fins on spiny finned fish like perch. Best to keep the fish in the water when working the hook out, especially with trout.

If you plan to keep them to eat, that isn't an issue. But you want to maximize the survival of the fish you release.

The only fish I haven't enjoyed eating is chum salmon. I think all the rest are tasty. But even people who don't like eating fish are known to make an exception for freshly caught Maine white perch.

*(Hexagenia, I think. Big brown drakes, 1 1/2" or so, plus tail.)