How Do You Like to Catch Fish?
We often hear guests and fishermen ask how the fishing is and what is working, and my first question right back at them is well, how do you like to fish?
Nymphs? Streamers? Dries? Wets? Everything?
Connecticut River Fishing Report: 8/31
It’s changing around here … you can just feel it. That transition from summertime to fall is happening here in northern New Hampshire, and that means fall fishing on the Connecticut River. Perhaps the most beautiful part of the year, and a great time to cast on the river for colorful brookies and browns, and don’t forget about our acrobatic rainbows and salmon too. It’s here.
1 down, 599 to go …
The weather has taken a wintry turn in the last day or so, and it looks like we won’t be fishing anytime soon. Chuck Degray’s got his work cut out for him trying to fill his fly orders, as he kicks it in to high gear tying his famous Gray Soft Hackle Streamer. Good luck, Chuck!
The Offseason
What does a northeast fly fisher do when it’s simply too cold to take to the water? Some of us might tidy up our gear, maybe organizing our fly boxes once again after a season of fishing, or getting our leaders and tippet straightened out (no pun!).
It’s Trout Season Somewhere …
The Pemigewasset River near Bristol, N.H. is still open for fishing (as are a few other rivers in the Granite State), and from all accounts, it looks like the fishing has been pretty good.
R.I.P. Putt
Our Tall Timber family of fishermen lost a good one this week, Richard Puttkamer, but everyone around here called him simply “Putt”.