American playwright and novelist Thorton Wilder said, “When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure: when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.” It’s a sentiment shared by countless sporting enthusiasts across the globe, many of whom have invested in private residence within a sporting community…
There aren’t many places where you can catch Rio Grande cutthroat, but you’ll find these little gems in the fishery of the Lodge and Ranch at Chama, in New Mexico. While the trout may not be the larges on the property, they are probably the prettiest. And you’ll find them in some of the most spectacular parts of the ranch, namely the spring creeks and high-canyon rivers that are between 7,000 to 11,000 feet up.
If you’re going to be in Manhattan for a business meeting and you expect to have some free time, be sure you pack a fly rod, as there is quite a bit of saltwater fly fishing you can do right from Manhattan, or within an hour-and-a-half drive from Manhattan. Fish available are striped bass and bluefish and, seasonally, bonito and false albacore.
Capt. Dan Wood (860-442-6343) for boat fishing the inshore islands and the rips out of Niantic on a 26-foot Pacemaker: Capt. Steve Burnett (860-445-7180) for boat fishing the inshore islands and rips out of Groton on a 20-foot Wahoo: Capt. Jeff Northrup (203-226-1915)…
Snooze buttons are seldom hit on alarm clocks during the fall at the High Lonesome Ranch. Many times the alarm clocks continue to ring and there is no one there to listen to them. With a cast and a blast ahead of me, I’m to excited to sleep.
The first shot of the morning belong to Lt. Col. Claiborne Walker (C.W., for short). The bird, a mature male grouse, flushed from an alder patch where a ridge of century-old pines dropped down to meet the dogleg of a feeder stream…