TL;DR: Walden Pond. Smallmouth bass. Easy pickings. With family and work schedules pretty chock full, there won’t be any trout fishing for me in the coming few weeks. Of course, I think about fishing pretty often. It’s a sickness, an obsession or both. So, I started to think about local waters near my house
Star Trek and Need for More Speed
Hi everyone, wanted to let you know that we’ve had to “grow up” and put in a privacy policy. It’s here. The short answer is: Blog traffic is growing rapidly. The servers are not keeping up, and page downloads have been agonizingly slow at times I have bought more hosting capacity and added technical gizmos
Fluorescent Orange Flies: They Work
One of the most effective colors in my fly tying arsenal is this: fluorescent orange. That color has worked wonders at the Farmington, Millers and Westfield East Branch rivers. I work with UTC thread to incorporate that color into some of my nymphs. Easy to do so. View this post on Instagram A post shared
Best Flies and DIY Spots: Easy Links
These flies work, and these rivers produce. Links are below. Note that these are all amply-stocked waters that many already visit and about which much information already has been published. I’ve found that many rivers are sub-par. I track in my fishing journal what fly patterns work on which waters. So, the links below are