I’ll buy you a nice fly rod my friend if it makes you feel alrightI’ll get you graphite or ‘boo my friend if it makes your loops so tight‘Cause I don’t care too much for moneyBut money can’t buy me love Paul McCartney and John Lennon sang those lines in their 1964 hit song “Can’t
Author: Jamie Carr
What Are They Taking?
This week I did something unusual on the river. I lied. Having success fishing at a popular spot on the Swift River, I paused when an older angler waded in beside me and asked, “What are they taking?” Maybe it was the fact that he asked right off the bat. No chit chat. No preamble.
Rainbows at DePuy Spring Creek
My parents decided to celebrate their 50th anniversary in a cool way: a family trip to Montana. This trip was modelled after one a generation earlier, when my grandparents, my uncle, and my mom and dad brought my sister and me along on a Yellowstone Park adventure in the late 1980s. The stories from that
Swift Reward
With all of the rain this winter and spring, the Quabbin Reservoir has been spilling since January. I have not been fishing the Swift River, but the flows have made for good sightseeing at the spillway. I’ve taken a few walks along the river and learned where the trees have been removed (or deposited). When