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Author: Joe Drake

Shad Run Fun (Well, Mostly….)

June 14, 2021March 1, 2022 Joe Drake

New England, and Massachusetts in particular, is home to an amazing migration of the sea’s bounty to inland. You may be think that it is a hidden salmon run kept secret from the masses by government conspiracy? Well you would be wrong. According to the lowest dam’s fish lift on the Connecticut River, a whopping

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Small-Stream Spring Serenades

May 28, 2021May 26, 2021 Joe Drake

I blinked, and just like that, it was spring. This year’s transition between the extended (and prolonged and horrid and muddy) winter and what we are currently experiencing seemed to have truly skipped spring and launched us into early summer. That is not a complaint per se, just a bit confused where spring went this

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Borger’s Fly Fishing Book Series and the Strip Nymph

March 5, 2021May 2, 2024 Joe Drake

I haven’t been able to get out to much since December. It’s been making my casting arm all twitchy. Work, school, and other life obligations have had to take priority and I am sorry to expect many of you can identify with that. This year’s glacially slow turn in seasons, which has been Ice Ages

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Holiday Gifts: Tried and True and Partly New (2020)

December 13, 2020May 2, 2024 Joe Drake

This year has been one for the record books in terms of weird. I had several long planned trips put off and hopefully (fingers crossed) will happen next year. However, it hasn’t been all bad. Due to Covid-distancing, I had more than plenty of my fair share of excuses to slink into the woods and

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