From Walt: if Hallmark were to make a Christmas movie about fly fishing, it might look something like “Speying For Love.” This story is a sequel to Bill Hager’s “The Christmas Trout,” which appeared on this blog last Christmas. When last we saw Marcy, she was standing in Willowemoc Creek near Roscoe, NY, flushed from
Author: Bill Hager
Squeezing It In
I’m aware of very few professions that are as demanding as being a professor at MIT. Those men and women do their research night and day, weekdays and weekends, year-round. Furthermore, they do it because they love it. So when my friend Brent, an MIT prof, said he was free to fish last Saturday, I
Colorado Dreaming, Part 5
The final installment. Prior to our trip, I thought the Arkansas River was probably in or near Arkansas. Silly me. I should have known it would be right in the center of Colorado, only about 970 miles from Little Rock. Doover2 discovered in his research that the Arkansas River was another Gold Medal Stream that
Colorado Dreaming, Part 4
Of the four of us who traveled to Colorado to fish the legendary stretches of the South Platte River, I was the most senior of the group, and Doover2 was the youngest. Doover1 and Waymore were much closer to my age than Doover2’s. But not only was there a generational gap between D2 and the