Here’s another guest post from Bob Christmann. I think you’ll enjoy it! Some days, nothing works and you can’t buy a fish. The trout are out in front of you rising everywhere and they are just laughing at you as you get mostly skunked. You find wind knots in your leader. You get hung up
Author: Jo Tango
Trout Stocking Update (Spring 2021)
It’s soon going to be “game on” here in New England for trout. Connecticut has started stocking and the Governor just moved up Opening Day from mid-April to March 4. (Note that the Farmington is still catch-and-release until April 10 and that the permanent TMA section is always so.) Massachusetts will start rolling any day
Cortland Line Ultra Premium Tippet
I’ve long been a fan of Cortland Line and use their materials for my Euronymphing leaders for trout and steelhead (prior posts here, here and here). And I continue to hear from other trusted anglers that their tippet material is crazy strong. Blog team member Joe Drake wrote about Cortland’s Ultra Premium Fluorocarbon Tippet (post
At the Vise: Kelly Galloup’s Hare’s Ear
If you want to simplify your fly selection in the spring, a good tandem to fish is a Pheasant Tail and a Hare’s Ear. The former mimics a swimming nymph (e.g., a BWO) and the latter can represent a clinger nymph (e.g., a March Brown), both of which are very common in the drift in