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.
RI’s Trout Unlimited chapter has announced a grant to restore connectivity to Arcadia’s Breakheart Pond as a legacy conservation project. Brook trout, turtles, eels have been denied safe passage for more than 90 years to cool waters and thermal refuge. This is a banner day for conservation and a clear example of Trout Unlimited’s mission to protect and preserve cold water fishes. Read the details right here.
Yes indeed, we are declaring Friday, October 14, 2022 as Fish Wrap Fishing Friday. It’s time to lace up, wader up, get up and get outside before the winds of change have us shoveling and hiding. Let’s fish, shoot and watch a film on a fine Fall Friday. It’s all here, in Fish Wrap this week.
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.
