On a pretty late spring day, Cora waited a long time, watching a bobber, hoping for that first amazing trout. The Surfcasters made it happen. The Narragansett Surfcasters, lead by Bruce Bain, held another Take A Kid Fishing Day and this time, one sweet young woman left with a memories and maye a new perspective on life.
With midges and an ace guide, we fished Massachusett's Deerfield River for rainbow, brook and pretty, elusive wild browns. Joe Benson was our guide; he led us easily and wisely, we caught, released and missed a few along the Charlemont stretch of America's hardest working river. It was the best day eva.
Brackish Outfitters builds lifetime rods for anglers who appreciate silent streams, city canals and big surf beaches. Owner Geoff Klane ties flies, builds rods and guides clients through deep wooded stretches in search of wild brook trout and long runs of Cape Cod beaches where stripers lurk. Each build is art.
Bryan Archer's "The Meditative Fisherman" is a fine book of fishing, travel, reflection and appreciation all angler should read several times. I loved every page.
Deep in the brush, enveloped in protective poison ivy, slowing water, amassing mud, encouraging alders to set roots in a stream, a tired wall has prohibited trout passage for nearly one hundred years. Then, Trout Unlimited, RIDEM and Protect RI Brook Trout grabbed loppers and sledgehammers and tore that wall down. The improvement was immediate and frankly, really wonderful.
The Rhode Island chapter of Trout Unlimited has made a bold move to protect native fishes and their essential habitat. RITU Chapter President,...
How Do You Value Opening Day? Is this day for fishing stocked ponds, stringers and bacon? Is it for an overdue hour on a rolling river with the hopes of possibly finding some wild brookies? Or is it a wash because you just want to fish for something? There is great value in everything so we ask, what do you value the most?
We're all about trees to help trout, guides to help fish and flies to help a film be absolutely killer. Not a bad winter Fish Wrap week. And you get to meet Peter Jenkins of The Saltwater Edge and the American Saltwater Guides Association.