There I was, two weeks ago. Standing 10 feet upstream of one of the biggest rainbow trout I’ve ever seen. Had he seen me? Was he feeding? Even if he took my fly, did I have a chance of landing him in this small Georgia stream? I’ve always been intrigued by the Soque River, which
Author: Bill Hager
Walt Randall: ‘Speying for Love’
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
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