November 2, 2019 is the annual banquet of the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum Association in Carlisle, Pa. This year’s commemorative fly...

There hasn’t been much fishing of late with the low water conditions we are experiencing here, but hopefully the streams get some rain...

I’m ever amazed by the combinations of coloration found in nature, and holding one of these speckled works of art never grows old for me....

I’ve never felt that the fish I catch validate me as an angler. I’ve had the fortune of catching my share of larger fish over the years;...

We are only a few days from the middle of August; and while this time of the season is usually the thick of the “dog days of summer”,...

A few weeks ago I wrote that blue lining was a combination of exploration, exhilaration and outright exhaustion in varying measure. The...

The first pitch is always the most important one you make, and it’s the one that deserves the best combined efforts of your experience,...

I’ve always enjoyed that first moment when I arrive to the edge of the water and the feeling that comes with standing close to it. After...

It’s the time of the season when water temperatures in the bigger water start to rise above safe levels for trout fishing, and both the...

Hiking into headwater streams can be a combination of exploration, exhilaration and outright exhaustion in varying measure. I spent...

I spent this past Saturday hiking and fishing a few small Class A Wild headwater streams in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania with my...

On last week’s post I extolled the virtues of the USGS Quadrangle Topo map as a planning tool. My exploration of a blue line is always...

Exploring the small streams that hold wild trout is an obvious passion of mine. In spite of advancement in technology, I still enjoy the...

It’s rare to have a friend that will hike well over a half a mile to a headwater stream in the middle of nowhere, completely aware of the...

The past few years of my fishing time has been for the most part a mission to fish and explore most of the designated wild trout streams...

Some days things in life just seem to come together…. The rain takes a day off on the same day that I did, and I can slip away to the...

I recently joined a sharing group on Face book where fisherman post pictures of wild trout they have caught. I’m excited to see anglers...

I’ve read that science has isolated a genetic predisposition among those of us that have a tendency or need to explore. I’m not at all...

Life often presents us with just one choice to make, one chance to do something right and one day at a time. It also presents us with...

I spent a day this past weekend exploring a few thin blue lines in central Pennsylvania with my friend George Reilly. The trip was my...