One of the many great things about being in the fly fishing industry for nearly 40 years are my affiliations with the top anglers, guides and companies. As Granny and I made our way towards Lake Michigan yesterday, I rang my friend Joe Wolthuis at Scientific Anglers. SA is based in MI so I figured … Read more
We made good time zipping the Ruby Van from NH to the Midwest. Yesterday I drove us nearly 800 miles from Wolfeboro to Toledo, OH. We stopped around 10 PM. Today we got up at 4:30 AM and made a much shorter jaunt into Michigan. To the north east shores of Lake Michigan to be … Read more
It’s hard to believe Granny and I went three days here in Wolfeboro, NH without making a cast. Believe me, I thought about fishing, but the weather went south since our last outing. The temps dropped to the low 50°s and there’s been a bunch of cold rain. Toss in a family boat ride around … Read more
Granny and I had a couple hours to spare this afternoon on Lake Winnipesaukee. I took her to my favorite smallmouth bass waters. But we’re two weeks earlier than normal and it appears most the smallies are on the nest. Granny tossed poppers off ledges and my usual haunts but all that we could persuade … Read more
Nearly every day since arriving in NH I’ve been up before 5 AM. A few of these days I fished but when not, I got work done for my biz. Today I awoke in the back of my 1991 Explorer in friend Dan Swifts driveway at 4:30 (I love sleeping in my truck and it’s … Read more
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