I consider myself a lucky man to have a birthday in the fall. There is no better time of year. I take this annual day and celebrate it fishing. While the last 34 years I was almost always on Idaho trout waters, today I walked a secluded Wisconsin river for pike and muskie. Best … Read more
I walked in the door at 1:45 AM this morning. Yesterday I had the late flight from Jackson Hole that left at 1:30 PM. I arrived in Duluth at 11:37 PM. After collecting my luggage, it was a deer dodging drive for two hours to Hayward. It sounds horrible I’m sure, but after years of … 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
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
If its not one thing its another. After the postponement of the Marlboro Fly Fishing Show it felt good that the Edison New Jersey Fly Fishing Show was going on for sure. Yeah, we suspected attendance would be down with Covid still on the go. But the last thing we needed was a huge snowstorm. … Read more
Granny and I got up real early today to bail from our likely, illegal campsite. We were in a national forest headquarters parking lot because we couldn’t find a campsite last night. Its hard to believe but it seems that all of the world is out galivanting around the US these days camping and having … Read more
The rest of Team USA Masters Fly Fishing Team got in from the USA tonight. This includes Pete Erickson, Mike Sexton and Brett Bishop. The guys have normal jobs so they weren’t able to come early and practice like Jerry and I. They were exhausted as to be expected so they are now off to … Read more
There’s been no fishing since returning from the incredible pike expedition to Alaska. First at hand was to finish up my blogs and edit exactly 700 photos from the trip. I added some amazing northern pike images to my collection and I’m looking forward to sharing them this winter on my 2022 speaking tour. But … Read more
August 17-21, 2021 Plain and simple, for the first time in the 12 years of writing about every single day of fishing, I’m so far behind in about everything in life that I’m going to give the shortest reports from this week’s fishing of all time. Don’t worry, I won’t make a habit of … Read more
If you’re thinking I need to get my butt out fishing because the blog has been way too quiet – I agree! But that yard sale, spring clean up and overall catching up on a lot of things after that wonderful trip to Wisconsin set me back a little. Furthermore, May is not a great … Read more
This is simply a reminder that Granny and I are having a yard sale. We originally scheduled it for Saturday May 15 but the weather for Saturday looks sketchy – so we will be set up today at 11 AM and the same tomorrow and then we’ll do our best to pull it off on … Read more
Granny won’t drive my stick shift 1991 Explorer so I punched out a lot of miles on this Wisconsin trip. 3,285 to be exact. Yesterday we left Iron River, WI at 5 AM sharp and 850 miles later we pulled into a campsite within view of Devils Tower in Wyoming. Two beers in my Yeti … Read more