Tag Archives: brown trout

How Adventures (Sometimes) Play Out

Posted on November 22, 2024 by wings of a tern

[This post is a rather quick follow up to the previous one portraying my best fish of the season so far. Check out the earlier post, if you haven’t looked there yet. With this, I close my northern visits for … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brown trout, Charles Darwin, creation, fishing, freedom, God, John Fowles, Thanksgiving, writing | 22 Comments

I Saw the Sunset in its Leap

Posted on November 14, 2024 by wings of a tern

With nothing much to celebrate this autumn, I looked back to a more colorful time for me, October days with friends and family near the woods and oceanside Rhode Island (Block Island), fishing the Great Lakes region, trying to stay … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged angling, brown trout, environment, fly-fishing, nature, Rhode Island, salmon, serendipity, travel, tributaries, writing | 18 Comments

Meeting the River Trout

Posted on December 12, 2023 by wings of a tern

The break in December weather was like a holiday gift from the gods. The air temp rose to 53 degrees F., the river temp to 44. Although the sun hid behind the deep gray clouds, I stood in the northern … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art, books, brown trout, entertainment, flyfishing, food, gifts, good luck, nature, photography, poetry, river trout, small streams, travel, winter fishing, writing | 18 Comments

Golden Brown

Posted on October 28, 2022 by wings of a tern

There were golden days this autumn, brilliant afternoons delightful for occasions on the trail or on the stream. I tried to make the most of them, getting outside when I could, and trying to fit some angling time into a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, brown trout, Finger Lakes, fly-fishing, landscapes, nature, photos, rainbow trout, river days, writing | 17 Comments

Upstate Brown and Salmon Time

Posted on November 11, 2020 by wings of a tern

The tumultuous U.S. election events have finally been resolved, or have they? This is not the time or place for lingering on politics but I’ll say that, over all, I was pleased with the results while acknowledging that there are … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beautiful Like a Mayfly, brown trout, Cayuga Lake, Fall Creek, fishing, friendship, landlocked, nature, November, politics, salmon, spawn, Walt Franklin, writing | 8 Comments

Picket Pin

Posted on May 1, 2020 by wings of a tern

One of my older fishing pals told me that his favorite fly pattern for night angling on the home river was a Picket Pin. Another elder told me that he likes to cast the same time-honored pattern (first developed in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amish, Ben Franklin, brown trout, dry fly, fly-fishing, ground squirrels, Hendrickson, home water, nature, Picket Pin, solitude, writing | 29 Comments

The Wild Trout Throw a Party

Posted on April 15, 2020 by wings of a tern

I woke up around 3:15 a.m. with several lines of silly thought reverberating in my head. For better or worse, these lines may have given impetus for this latest post. One of them was close to a throw-away: “We’ve got … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beer, brown trout, Covid-19, crisis, dreams, fishing, home water, nature, party, recycling, small streams, wild trout, writing | 29 Comments

A Letort Original

Posted on February 20, 2020 by wings of a tern

[ Although I introduced the following subject in a post about a year ago, I’d like to present it once more, this time from a somewhat difficult angle, accompanied by recent photos from the New York home water. Thanks, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bamboo, birds, Black Ant, brown trout, fishing tackle, fly-fishing, friendship, iconoclasm, Letort Spring Creek, nature, Spring, spring creeks, tenkara, writing | 10 Comments

The Caddis Hour

Posted on October 2, 2019 by wings of a tern

The Caddis Hour is not so much about fishing as it is a state of mind. I visited a stretch of Genesee River that I probably hadn’t waded in a decade. It was mid-morning. River pools, low and thirsty, were … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birds, blessings, brown trout, caddis, Chester Rods, Earth, environment, fly-fishing, Genesee River, nature, poetry, populations, psychology, Time, wildness, writing | 12 Comments

Gray Hair and Grizzly Hackle

Posted on September 18, 2019 by wings of a tern

Ever since I joined several outdoor organizations and started to attend their regular meetings in the 1990s, I’ve been hearing a general complaint: Look around this room. Our hair is gray. We need some younger people, bright new faces interested … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activism, brown trout, commentary, community, environment, fishing, nature, poetry, Slate Run, society, Time, Walt Franklin, writing, youth | 18 Comments