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
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Fish in a Barrel
A fishless fall was forecast for the forlorn East Branch of the Westfield River. MassWildlife didn’t even list the Westfield among its destinations for this fall’s 63,000 trout. MassWildlife is obsessed with stocking every pond in the Bay State with trout, but parsimoniously puts them in rivers where they belong. But this year, one could
Caught Four, Shoulda Been More
This past weekend Doover2 and I decided to go fishing to see if we could scare up a few trout. Friday night, as we were texting back and forth about where we should go, we were all over the map. With my weakened medical condition, I was looking for something that wouldn’t require a lot
At the Vise: The Frenchie 2.0
Before I started to target big-and-wild browns, as a new angler, I focused on the the rain-bros at the Swift, Westfield, Millers, and Squannacook. It was a lot of fun, and those waters aren’t too far away from metro Boston and offer obvious spots so that you don’t need a guide (our compendium of DIY