What became clear to me quite quickly was this: If I lived this close to trout water this beautiful, I’d likely be living in a trailer. It’s just too darn beautiful.
Read More >>Trout Fishing the Elbow River, Alberta, Canada
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Video: New England on the Fly 2014 Wrap-Up – Fly Fishing Film Tour with Cheeky
2014 was a great year for me personally, and for New England on the Fly. I made some good new fishing friends, had some great days on the water. Here’s the video that wraps it all up.
Read More >>Postcard from New Zealand
As New England is hunkering down for a potentially historic snowfall, Andy Bonzagni at Concord Outfitters shared the below photos with me from his recent trip to New Zealand. Nothing like a few hogs to get you through the storm.
Read More >>Photos: Fly Tying Through the Cold
Last night, as the mercury plunged, a few friends gathered to tie flies in a subterranean Boston restaurant. It was a great antidote to the bitter cold outside: jokes were told, patterns debated, and the jerk chicken was much, much hotter than people remembered.
Read More >>Winter Trout Fishing on the Deerfield River
I don’t know if we were hearty or foolish but, faced with some sun and a few days off from work, my friend Ben Brunt and I drove out to the Deerfield River in Western, MA, to see if we could find any willing, if not cold, trout. The weather? Sunny, 27, windy.
Read More >>Book Review: A Tale of Two Rivers by Ron Lasko
How refreshing it is, then, to discover a fishing destination close to home. This discovery is what the best of Ron Lasko’s book, A Tale of Two Rivers, provides.
Read More >>Video & Photos: Gaspé Atlantic Salmon & Striped Bass June 2014
This June, I drove north to the Gaspé peninsula in search of Atlantic salmon. I’ve been very fortunate to have made this drive north almost every summer for the last 25 years. But this year would be different.
Read More >>Fly Fishing Massachusetts’s Quaboag River: Video, Photos & Notes
The water? 52 degrees. The air? A bluebird 65-70. The Hendricksons? Hatching with profligacy. The trout? Unseen and nearly unfelt.
Read More >>When Will the Spring Fishing Season Arrive?
As the weather begins to warm, many are asking: what will this long winter mean for this year’s fishing season?
Read More >>Postcard from New Zealand
Lush green hills. Precipitously peaked mountains. Water an emerald blue. Unimaginably big trout. And only the happy angler in the frame, with no other people in sight. Such are the picture postcards from New Zealand that have been arriving in my inbox ever since my friend arrived for his year plus stay in this anglers paradise.
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