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
Category: Swift River
Fall Fishin’
View this post on Instagram A post shared by BlogFlyFish.com (@blogflyfish) It was a 4 am wake-up call for me because I knew it would be a long drive to the Westfield River’s East Branch (our overview here). Thankfully the roads were vacant, and I made good time. A dose of rain had swelled our
Broken Promises
I promised myself that I would not do three things if I went fishing today. Then I went and broke two of my three promises. As mentioned in a previous Blogflyfish article, a week from today I will undergo hip replacement surgery. It’s questionable whether I should be out trying to wade around in a
Sparkle Caddis Emerger: A New (Old) Standby
The Sparkle Caddis Emerger is far from a new fly. Developed around 1974 by Gary Lafontaine, it’s a pattern that has been fished successfully in hundreds of waters around the world. Yet despite its effectiveness, it is often ignored in favor of “sexier” bugs. For years, a couple of gaudy Sparkle Caddis Emergers sat dormant