Fishing Life

If you are like me, mid to late summer you find yourself in a bind. Water conditions make it unsafe/unethical to fish for trout. Stream flows shrink and the temperature rises. These conditions can frustrate many anglers. In Southwestern PA, we are blessed however with a healthy smallmouth population. Pretty much any river or stream […]

Since discovering tenkara fly-fishing a few years ago, I don’t travel much without a tenkara rod. Tenkara rods are telescopic, collapsing down to about eighteen inches and only require a fly line, leader, and a handful of your favorite flies. Minimal gear and super simple. Absolutely liberating after years of carrying a minimum of four […]

Sitting on the bank of a mountain lake as the glow starts to shine in the eastern skies.  Sitting with my kayak beached on the bank waiting for the first safe light to launch.  The birds starting to chirp as the warming glow starts creeping up the mountain slope from the lake.  Fish crashing the […]

It’s hunting season! If you religiously hunt and fish you have probably been asked this open ended question a million times from the months of September-January. “Have you done any fishing lately?” Nine out of ten times I guarantee your answer is “No, it’s hunting season.” As avid hunters, we all know this time of […]

Every angler venturing to Alaska in search of salmon on the fly dreams vividly of aggressive coho or chum trouncing a streamer being ripped across the river. Day and night dreams of beautiful roll casts, colorful marabou and bunny streamers wafting brilliantly through prime holding water, and a shark-like wake split by a speckled dorsal […]

Secluded Honey Holes You might have heard that muskies are “the fish of 10,000 casts.” I can attest to that. I’ve gone days and even weeks without catching a Muskie. Maybe I wasn’t fishing every day, but a Muskie drought is something I try to avoid. I also try to avoid fishing pressure. That’s why […]