You’ve met my friend Dan Swift (Danimal) before. We used to fish together around Cody, WY. Most recently was last year when we fished his cottage lake house waters over around Alton, NH. Dan and I go way back. He worked for me in the fly shop in the 90’s and went on in the … Read more
Not a moment in Wolfeboro, NH went by back in the day when my cousin Jon and I weren’t fishing Lake Winnipesaukee. We basically lived out of a 12 foot row boat with a Mercury 7.5. And when the motor was busted, which was often because two young teenage kids will run an engine hard, … Read more
We normally don’t come to Wolfeboro, NH until mid June. That’s when New England has warmed up and when the smallmouth leave their spawning beds and start feeding aggressively on poppers. But this year we’re early. Today was Mom’s 80th birthday! We celebrated well too. The day began restfully with coffee on the porch … Read more
Ahh yea, I’m slowly getting back to my old ways of before the pandemic. I’m bouncing around the country and world again. It feels good to be back in such action. On Wednesday night/Thursday morning Granny and I traveled from Hayward, WI to Wolfeboro, NH because this weekend is Mom’s 80th birthday. This afternoon I … Read more
I expected to be writing more fishing blogs by now from the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Instead, Granny and I been inside working on our new Hayward house. Every small project we start grows into something large. Or we find out there’s something else we need to do first before our project. We had a … Read more
Granny and I’ve been pressing to get our new Hayward, WI house up to par. That cigarette smoke I mentioned a couple days ago is the real deal. The house was freshly carpeted only a year ago and we had to rip the entire thing out. It took us 14 hours to uplift the heavy … Read more
Our Yellowstone Country Friends thought we were joking when we said we were selling our house in Victor, Idaho and moving to Wisconsin last June. Then they said we were crazy when we actually proceeded with the plan. Well, last week we silly folks arrived at our new pad in Hayward, WI. The nearly … Read more