A warm welcome to Daniel Seaton, who will be posting periodically as a guest contributor! Many thanks to Bill Hager for making the intro. We are always looking for guest writers, FYI! I have been eager to get out on the local rivers, but weather and parenting duties have kept me from chasing spring trout.
More Euro Dry-Dropper Work
It doesn’t make sense to drive four hours to fish for four hours. Not much of fly fishing makes sense to non-anglers: the long drives, the early wake-up times, the incorrigible obsessions with fly-pattern details, water flows, and bug hatches. But to devout anglers, it all makes absolute sense. View this post on Instagram A
A Magic Fly (for Today)
It was a tale of two halves today on the river. With forecast for rain and some potential lightning, I in the end decided to go for it and arrived early at the water, only to find absolutely no action. I didn’t see many bugs, and I couldn’t get any reactions from the fish. By
Bug Fest
Fellow blogger Ashu Rao was in town for the long weekend. We made plans to fish a half-day and met up bright and early at 5:30 am at one of his New Hampshire home waters. We think we may have seen a wild brown or brookie or two, but it was mostly stocked fish, with