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Winter hopefully is starting to loosen its grip. Last week we had a little warming trend it was above freezing for a couple of days. It started to feel a little like Spring was in the air, I even heard the “cheeseburger” bird. With nicer weather I hit
I’ve been on the hosting side of a lot of broken trips, but rarely on the visiting side. My family and I are on vacation on the south end of the Smoky Mountains, one of my favorite places on earth. The rivers are normally clear. The nymph fishing is usually
Well folks, our spring steelhead season is underway. Maybe it’s the cabin fever reaching a tipping point, but either way, there are new fish swimming upriver on a regular basis. We are not even close to being done with the cold, but the short term forecast actually looks pretty darn
Hamlin Lake is in the middle of a creel survey, with the last one being done in 2009. The DNR has been talking to anglers everyday through the month of February. It’s always interesting to talk with a biologist as you can get a lot of information. He said most
Stripping Streamers for Brown Trout
How many times have you heard the phrase “don’t stop moving your streamer”, when streamer fishing? It’s an interesting phrase and there is it a lot of truth to it for a lot of situations. However, there are always “exceptions to the rule” as multiple
Looking forward to speaking and demonstraiting at this very cool new show- The Fly Fishing and Wing Shooting Show at Split Rock Resort , Lake Harmony, PA…March 1st, 2nd,3rd. Will be doing presentations on my new Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus book -“Into the Mind of a Brown Trout- Jurassic Park
There is no time for sleeping-in here. The urgency of daylight is evident as local construction workers meander wave marks and dodge darting iguana’s on three speed banana seat Schwinns in front of the villa at 6 am. I cautiously tip toe across the teak floor, ever so careful not
More snow, more snow days, more electrical bills, more winter. Every February I begin to view the winter sports suspiciously, as if they are a prison trick to distract me my from incarceration. Alas, there’s a lot more winter to come. And truly once I’m outside — whether it’s for
