Category: Fun Stuff

It’s that time of the fishing season, where you might be tying up your proven fly patterns, planning your next fishing excursion, or dreaming of hooking an acrobatic salmon or bully of a brown on a glorious summer day.

While it seems like fishing season is a distant memory, it is really just around the corner – only five months away here in northern New Hampshire, and this just might be the perfect time to talk some fishing, or plan your next trip to the upper Connecticut River and Tall Timber.

The Salmon River in Pulaski, NY evokes a range of responses and emotions from anglers far and wide. It has a reputation. Not only as a singularly world class fishery for salmon and steelhead, but also as a river that can get pretty busy at certain times of the year. Our little “fishing group”of myself, Chuck, Matt and Jason, ventured out there for a few days of fishing earlier this week to try to get in to some steelhead. Here is our story …

What do you do if you’re an angler, the season on your home water is done, but you still have the urge to go fishing when nice weather hits? There’s a few options, and fishing doesn’t have to be over yet!

The image above is an illustration of #2 below … This is a special guest post, written by frequent visitor and angler of the upper Connecticut River, Jason Kauppi. The following blog post is based on his observations along our section of the river, but we’re pretty sure this is happening on other popular New England rivers too. If you’re a frequent reader of the blog, it probably does not pertain to you, but perhaps you know someone that it could help – please have them read it.