It’s time for Gear & Beer Volume VI, this time featuring the Yeti Hopper and Dale’s Pale Ale by Oskar Blues Brewery.
Read More >>Gear & Beer VI: Yeti Hopper and Dale’s Pale Ale
Author Archives: Benjamin Carmichael
3rd Annual Southern Maine Fly Fishing Derby
Fly fishing, Maine, catch and release striped bass? That’s my sweet spot. I grew up in the rocky coast, and love chasing striped bass on the fly. You can understand my excitement, then, when Joe and Matt from Why Knot Fishing started the Southern Maine Fly Fishing Derby three years ago
Read More >>Review: Cheeky Limitless 475 Fly Reel
This is a good reel. From a pure functional perspective, it’s precisely what most fly fishermen will need — and, at $475, it’s three or four hundred dollars cheaper than other reels that claim to deliver the same thing.
Read More >>Big New England Brown Trout
To pre-empt the questions: Yes, these are wild brown trout. Yes, they were caught in New England. And no, I won’t name the river In protecting this particular spot, people become downright uncivil when it’s named.
Read More >>Review: Costa Corbina Polarized Fishing Glasses
I recently went on a trip tarpon fishing in Boca Grande Florida and tried out the Costa Corbinas with Blue Mirror 580 glass lenses. They were perfect, for a number of reasons.
Read More >>Cape Cod Striped Bass Fishing on the Fly
Yesterday was one of those days where everything came together: the sun was out, the bait was abundant, the fish were feeding on top, and the birds helped lead the way.
Read More >>Southern Maine Striped Bass Fishing Report
If my first week of Maine striper fishing is any indication of the rest of the summer, then life is going to be good this summer.
Read More >>Fly Fishing for Tarpon in Boca Grande
We’re all familiar with the excuses that follow a good skunking. And so it was on the plane ride back from Boca Grande, Florida, where we had gone in search in tarpon.
Read More >>Best Golf and Fly Fishing in New England
Ok, I know, I know — golf? The headline might raise your eyebrows. But stick with me on this one, as golf and fly fishing have a lot in common. And I’m talking about more than a lot of old white men.
Read More >>Building a Blue Halo Fly Rod
For the last couple of years I’ve been intrigued by Courtney Boice and his fiberglass rod company Blue Halo. Like a child, I was drawn to the colorful works of art that his company pumps out at a rather mind blowing pace these days.
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