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Picking Your Tribe

I know a woman who caught five permit the first day she...

Trash

I am a fly angler, and like a lot of sportspeople (and what...

Belly Boating

Living here on the east coast, I spend the months of April...

Fish of a Fin

The other day two kids walked by the porch with cane poles...

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Blood and Water

The first mottled bronzey smallmouth bass brought to hand after a long fishless winter should move an angler to...

Benjamin Brady and the Brook Trout Bodhisattva

What you are about to read is a true story or at least as true as any fish story can be. Scheduled to leave the...

Safety First... or Second

As I age, a disturbing fact is emerging: I take more chances. Why? I want to catch bigger trout. Bigger trout live in...

Easing Back into Our Old Ways

Ask the trout of Bonnie Brook about their politics and they might tell you they are of the conservative persuasion...

Six Foolproof Tips to Catch Fewer and Smaller Trout

Most anglers tend to focus on big fish, or lots of fish, or lots of big fish.  While I’ll admit there’s a certain...

Brook Trout and Banyan Trees

Last summer, I was seated on a bench. Not any bench, but my favorite slab of abandoned lumber located beside this...

Looking Back

The long-handled net leans in the corner of the porch. Our fly rods lie snug in their tubes, the reels in their cases...

I Will Dream

Wading to a gravel bar, to a seam where two currents merge into one, I make a cast slightly upstream and mend the line...