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In the world of professional fly fishing and guiding there is no more anticipated time of the year than the Spring. The busiest season of the year. The Spring trips on my calendar are the  benchmark that can determine my success for the entire year. The loss of the 2020 Spring season will be difficult to survive for my modest guide service. But it is a nothing when considering the gravity and scale of what New York and the country is going through right now. Most frustrating is not all the cancelled fishing trips. It is being stuck here at home. The degree of sufferingRead More →

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In 1999, when I transitioned into fly casting on the lakes, I quickly found the medium-fast action eight-and-a-half foot rods I was using on the creeks and rivers to be inadequate. Not enough rod. So I made my way into The Troutfitter in Syracuse, and bought a pair of used nine foot two-piece Sage rods. An RPL five weight and a RPL+ six weight. Both of these were two piece rods. I believe Sage created these rods for the bone fisherman. They are very fast action with strong butts, yet light and accurate for small-to-medium sized flies. But I also think they were not enough rod for the avid flatsRead More →

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Salvelinus Namayacush is a predator. Their world is dominated by light and water temperature. When the perfect conditions exist, like an overcast day in mid May, when the spring turn over has made the water temperature throughout the lake the same, from the top to the bottom, they will hunt and prowl every square foot of lake, bottom to top, to feed. All items of prey that will fit in their mouth are fair game. They only require it to be alive and twitching. So a predator fish that spends a large part of its long life cycle in great depths due to temperature and oxygen constraints, will,  in theRead More →