Fly fishing is a lot of great things. But one of the best things is the way mini-friendships can happen spontaneously on a river. Saturday, my fishing buddy, Doover2, and I drove to what we knew would be a flooded and chilly Farmington River. We were hoping that the rising river would mean active trout
Author: Bill Hager
There Oughta Be A Law
With apologies to Shakespeare, “to be or not to be” is not the question. There are some things that just ought not to be. There are others that just ought to be. This article is about things in the fly-fishing world that should be obvious but somehow are not. I’ll start the list, and maybe
The Christmas Trout (if Hallmark were to make a movie for anglers)
Marcy, a successful and overworked fly rod designer, who has been living in New York City returns to her hometown of Roscoe, NY, in the heart of the Catskills for the Christmas holidays for the first time in five years. She is nursing a broken heart from a recent breakup with her fiancé and a
The Secret to Catching Trout
It hit me the other day like a bolt out of the blue. Of course! Why hadn’t I seen it before? It was there all along. Now the pieces were all starting to fall into place. As soon as I tell you what it is, you’ll slap yourself on the head and say, “Yes! Why