J Fisher Catalog – Summer 2007
While I love to trout fish and bird hunt, I find the mountains limiting. When I look at a ridge line I know that in a short period of time, be it a day, a week, or a month, I can get to the...
read moreTo IGFA or Not to IGFA – Fly Fishing in Salt Waters
There is an on-again/off-again debate about fishing according to International Game Fish Association standards that I think can be distilled into to fish catches. The first comes in the form of the IGFA World Record striped bass caught by Greg Myerson. Myerson was...
read moreNew England’s Fall Beaches – Fly Fish America
Fall beach fishing is like a good short story you can't put down. There is the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the end. Some times it's fast, other times it's measured, but at all times it's a page-turner. When fall actually starts depends on who you...
read moreFall Run Madness – Fly Fishing in Salt Waters
Migratory fish get under your skin. They follow a lot of rules, but they break almost as many as they follow. That makes them a lot like an outstanding novel, with a beginning, a peak and an end. The story line comes together on a beach in the fall. Fishing conditions...
read moreFirst Shot – Field & Stream
Hey, I found the deep spot. During the short window for wadefishing the bayside flats near Wellfleet, Mass., one cloudy June afternoon, Tom Keer chased a striped bass off the edge of a sandbar into a neck-deep channel. "The 12-foot tides drop to less than 2 feet for...
read moreSpey Casting – Fly Fisherman
It was as perfect a September as ever. The temperature at night was cold enough to ice the deck of my boat, and hot enough during the day to make me sweat. Indian Summer as it's known here in the Pilgrim State of Bassachusetts. Before the sun was up I walked into my...
read moreIsonychia – Fly Rod & Reel
Over the years I've found brilliance in events that don't go according to plan. That was the case last fall when I visited the Farmington River and saw anglers in every spot I wanted to fish. I had to laugh; Indian Summer was in full swing with its warm days and cool...
read moreSouth County, Rhode Island – Eastern Fly Fishing
Among saltwater anglers you’ll never hear a peep about Rhode Island’s diminutive size. The smaller, the better, they say, and anglers in Little Rhody are used to outstanding and diverse fishing opportunities without driving from pillar to post. South County is one of...
read moreFish Patterning – Fly Fishing in Salt Waters by Tom Keer and Kenney Abrames
FISH PATTERNING IS a modern term for a very old methodology. It is a reasonable, deliberate and highly effective way of fishing. It depends on understanding the dynamic relationship between predator and prey in their environment. The phrase describes the essential...
read moreA Collection of How-To’s from Field & Stream’s Sportsman’s Notebook
A collection of over 25 clever and practical ideas for the sportsmen including how to improve your surf rod's action, the fastest way to rig a sink-tip line, do it yourself sporting gear, emergency guide repair, emergency boat steering and...
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