I forced myself not to sleep through the 3:30 am alarm yesterday and dragged my sorry butt into the car for a ride to the river. I had met up with an old friend Friday night, and some could say that we were a little aggressive on the drink ordering at the bar. But I’m
Category: Brown Trout
Dawn Patrol with the Thomas and Thomas Contact II
“Dawn patrol” is an apt phrase from fellow blogger David Hyde for when we go out for stripers in the wee hours. He’s been a generous mentor as I try to figure out the salt. But, Saturday was an opportunity for me to chase salmonids in the sweet water, when I pursued my typical summer
Rich Strolis’s ‘Shucked-up Emerger’
There’s no shortage of fly pattern tutorial videos these days. Many of them are an impressive display of the fly tyer’s art, but one has to wonder if some of them actually catch fish. I get on a creative streak from time to time, whipping up experimental patterns that look great but most of them
Narrow Bite Windows
Sometimes, it all comes together with fly fishing. You miraculously find stretches of water devoid of anglers, the hatches trundle forward and overlap so that you always have magical dry-fly action, and catching wild fish suddenly seems so easy and effortless. That didn’t happen to me on Saturday. No, we’re still seeing incredible traffic at