The other day East Texas Red called the tag alder the trout’s best friend. It has other names – speckled alder, grey alder, hazel alder, hoary alder and mountain alder – but every trout fisherman I know calls them tag alders, sometimes with an expletive… Read More
I’m in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania fly fishing with my friend East Texas Red. We experienced some nasty weather last night – Tornado warnings. Today on our way to a stream we saw many downed trees. The water around here was very high making… Read More
I grew up in a fishing family. I never thought much about it. It was just what we did, and since my big brother and my dad loved to do it, I loved it too. I remember the first day my father took me to… Read More
My neighbour’s son Ethan wants to learn fly fishing. I took him one day last year to the Grand River, and this spring I sent Ethan and family to a trout farm, where he caught his first trout on a fly. Today we went to… Read More
I visited a trout stream today I hadn’t been to in a few years. If you were on the road to this place you likely wouldn’t know it was there. Yes there is a bridge but the stream is so far down from the bridge… Read More
It looked like it might rain this morning but I took a chance it was just going to be overcast, and I took off to do a little trout fishing. This is a river I haven’t fished for many years. A friend of mine fished… Read More
…with Leon The fishin’ is always good, even when the catchin’ isn’t.
I’ve been drawn to rivers since that day as a young boy my father gave me my own spinning outfit and took me to a little creek where I caught my first trout. I find it hard to pass a river without stopping to check… Read More
It’s been some time since I’ve walked this stretch of river. I walked the tracks down to where the they meet the river at a long riffle and flat and worked my way all the way back. Parts of the stream are exactly as… Read More
I’ve been thinking a lot about the river lately. When I say the river, I mean the river I always just called the river because it was a go-to haunt for me for so long. It has a number of stretches, if I can call… Read More
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