Fellow blogger Alex Bagdonas joined me for a guided trip on Cape Cod with guide Steve Kean. The original hope was to get into tailing fish at first light, but after an hour past false dawn with no tails in sight, Steve called an audible and took us to a channel edge for blind casting.
Category: Saltwater
Three Striper Trips
I should start with a brief description of my “standard” striper fly fishing trips, so readers can understand what I do. I fish in an Ipswich estuary, using canoes (or a kayak, if I’m by myself), putting in well up a tidal river at about two to three hours after high tide. I paddle downriver
Salt, Part 3: Making Your Game Plan
This is a multi-part series on how to get into saltwater fly fishing. For the other posts, click here and here. If you’ve made it this far, The Salt will be calling you soon. The stripers are well on their way to our home waters, and they are hungry. So, hopefully, this is a timely
May Cinder Worm Hatches
How much do you know about these cinder worm hatches? People don’t talk about them much, except for those of us who chase after them, sometimes successfully. They are worms one- to three-inches in length of various colors (pink, orange, brown, etc.). They swarm on the surface of the salt ponds in Rhode Island and