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
Category: Swift River
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.
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
Hope and 2024
I went to the Swift yesterday. It is a New Year’s Eve tradition for me on most years. I go below Route 9 on the last day of the catch-and-release regulations. It was easy to get a prime spot, thankfully, and I spent a few hours throwing size 30 dries to non-rising fish. Some rainbows