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Author: Bill Hager

The Christmas Trout (if Hallmark were to make a movie for anglers)

December 19, 2020December 18, 2020 Bill Hager

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

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Humor8 Comments

The Secret to Catching Trout

December 8, 2020December 5, 2020 Bill Hager

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

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Humor,Techniques4 Comments

Salmon River Saturday

November 20, 2020November 16, 2020 Bill Hager

On Wednesday, Veterans’ Day, my fly fishing buddy Doover2 had the day off and explored the Salmon River in southeastern Connecticut near Colchester.  Inexplicably, he was able to catch over two dozen trout without my help. He reported there weren’t many people fishing on the Salmon, even on a holiday. I couldn’t wait to go

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Other rivers,Salmon River20 Comments

The EB and D2 and Me

November 8, 2020November 7, 2020 Bill Hager

On Sunday, Doover2 and I took a trip to the Chesterfield Gorge to fish the most beautiful trout river in Massachusetts: the East Branch of the Westfield River (our overview here). In the seven years I’ve lived in New England, I’ve averaged five to six trips a year there, but this year with the drought

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Rainbow Trout,Westfield River5 Comments
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