My buddy and I hit the Salmon River looking for steelhead last weekend, neither the fish nor the weather were cooperative however. We drove up on Friday night, getting in late, and fished all day Saturday and the first half of Sunday before heading home. The forecast for Saturday called for temps in the mid [...]
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2018 Cheeky Schoolie Tournament
I have to hand it to Cheeky Fishing. They threw together a great weekend. I had a number of spin anglers on the water say to me that weekend "What's going on? I've never seen so many people fly fishing here before." The answer was the Cheeky Schoolie Tournament, the world's largest fly fishing [...]
Steelheading the Salmon River, NY
Steelheading is hard work. It’s cold, wet and the river does not always cooperate. There is something about those sea run rainbow trout though that call us back year after year. This is not steelheading like in the pacific northwest however, this is great lakes steelheading. Your views are not going to be nearly as [...]
Fly fishing the Farmington River, CT.
The sound of water tumbling over rocks as it sweeps past your legs, birds chirping in the trees and flying low across the river, picking mayflies out of the air, and the occasional beaver or otter swimming at the water's edge building their home, those are the sights and sounds I long for this time [...]