12 fishless hours later, we would be back there, by the boat ramp, to find cinder worms and our only stripers of the day.

Here’s a quick summary of fly fishing businesses based in New England. Now is more important than ever to shop local and support the businesses you care about. Please support them!

With the assessment of striped bass stocks looking dire, New England states have introduced new catch limits. (And on bluefish, too.) Find a summary of those limits below. Whether these changes are enough is not for this article (they’re not! in my opinion), but I hope this is a helpful summary.

Check out this great mini-doc on New England guide Abbie Schuster by Flylords on Outside online.

We all know Grundéns as the bright orange bibs that dot boats up and down the coast. But footwear? Yeah. Footwear.

In 2018, Orvis launched the Helios 3, and many people responded by asking, simply, “Why?” It’s a fair question. The Orvis Helios 2 was the flagship graphite rod in Orvis’s lineup. There’s a few things going on here.

This week, April Vokey published her latest episode of her “Anchored” Podcast series, and it featured none other than my dad, Hoagy Carmichael.

Everyone who has been on the water knows the orange Grunden’s Hercules bibs. But what would happen when Grunden’s released a new pair of non-rubber, non-bright orange bibs?

This fall was not to be saved by false albacore. But we tried!