The good folks are UpCountry are hosting fly-tying sessions with guides Zach St. Amand and Derrick Kirkpatrick. I’ve signed up for the 8:30 am session and hope to run into you there. Here is the description from UpCountry: Full-time Farmington River guides Derrick Kirkpatrick & Zach St. Amand will reveal their thought processes and open
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Farmington Water Flows and the MDC
Something’s not right with the Farmington’s water flows. But let me start first with some good news. With the spring semester over, I am back down to one job and decided last-minute to book an Airbnb for a few days and fish the Farmington. It was DYI food-wise each day: a simple breakfast, a simple
Fall Fishing the Farmington
The Swift, the Farmington, or the Deerfield? Those were the choices last weekend unless we want to fish for trout in one of the ponds in Cape Cod that were stocked multiple times this fall. MassWildlife continues to stock ponds of vast importance like the Little Alum, Baddacook, and Singletary while treating the Housatonic, Quinnepoxet,
The Wicked Witch Is Dead or At Least Dying
After getting skunked the three times I went fishing in Winter of 2022, I was beginning to think that I was doomed to never catch a trout again. During each effort, I went through my ritual of pep talks that I give myself when I’m losing hope: They’ve got to eat sometime! There’s going to