I think most of us have a few rods that are like old friends. Fly rod tapers are highly personal choices, and when you find one that clicks with your personality and casting style, they become the ones you string up most often. It’s been a trying period in my life lately, but there is therapy to be found in quiet places where a weary spirit can re-connect with its center. I decided to take an old friend for the day, one that had not been out of the tube for years. It was the

I love all the different varieties of wild trout we find in our waters regardless of what color spots they wear. They are all treasures to me. To be totally honest though, I really have a soft spot for the headwaters that the “trout of the fountain” call home. There’s an indescribable comfort in these off the path places where we find nature in its best form, where there’s comfort in quietness, where the stones wear cloaks of moss and lichen, and where we encounter the speckl