With my favorite freestones subject to the August heat and occasional dearth of rain, I continue to focus on the Swift. I continue to find that the fishing is increasingly challenging each time. Flies that worked well in the past now are getting refused. Trout are becoming less concentrated in particular spots: they’re spreading out
Do You Keep a Fishing Log?
For the first 30 years I fished, I experimented with keeping logs. I would often start a detailed log, keep at it for a month, before slacking off and leaving it blank. But a couple years back, I got back into it. See, a lot of people fly fish for a lot of different reasons.
Fishing for Pike in Alaska
(NortheasternFlyFishingPerspective.Blogspot.com) I’ve never fished for pike. I’ve never fished in Alaska. After reading a Richard Strolis’ recent blog post, I want to do both. 40″ pike? Catching dozens a day? Sign me up.
A Fat Swift River Rainbow
One of the more fun recent moments on the Swift involved landing this Fat Albert-esque 17″ rainbow. I was a few hundred yards above the Rt. 9 bridge. A sudden thunderstorm was rapidly closing in. A wind started to howl, ominous dark clouds were bearing down, and the trees started to sway back and