Tag Archives: Eno

By This River(top)

In a period of time with more than the usual rainfall, when the streams and rivers have been running high and off-color, the fishing is limited and I look more to the unsung lives and places of the rivertops.   … Continue reading

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A Small Stream Double-Haul

I saw a muscle car with a message on the back that read, “Hang On, I Feel Like Taking a Chance!” I felt like taking a chance, myself… not with driving, but with a double-haul of small stream fishing. After … Continue reading

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The North Country Spiders

The wet fly patterns known as “North Country Spiders” came to prominence in England around 1885 with the publication of Yorkshire Trout Flies written by T. E. Pritt.  But some of the patterns had been around for a long while … Continue reading

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Autumn Journal: October 30

The sensation was a little spooky. I was fishing with friends on northern New York’s Salmon River, and no one was catching anything, not the hardware angler on the bank, nor the guys out wading with a fly rod, nor the numerous client/guide … Continue reading

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