After many years of carrying a select group of my favorite streamers in a fairly small box, I now find myself in an experimental phase with the big bugs again.  I'm generally in the camp that believes presentation is far more important than pattern, but trying new...
Last Sunday Sloop John B set up the annual Troutbitten winter cookout. I think most of us prefer to fish with a little space around us, so I've never been one to get excited about fishing with a load of people, but at this location, there are so many different...
Lately I’ve been getting myself in the mode of walking more than fishing. I never really have any preconceived plan to walk in far. It just kind of happens.  I think it is the allure of knowing that the further I walk in, the less chance I have of seeing other guys...
** Note: This January 2015 post is rewritten and revisited here. So many of our favorite waters are accompanied by railroad tracks, and walking the familiar but odd stride required by the spacing of the wooden ties has become instinctive to me. Â The tracks are a...
This post is from contributing author, Pat Burke I debated whether to go fishing today.  When I woke up it looked NASTY outside. I decided to spend the morning with my boys and then reconsider fishing in the afternoon. Depending on which weather forecast I was...
Good thing we don't just go fishing to catch fish, because there wasn't a whole lot of that going on yesterday. Burke and I teamed up for a Sunday float, and we tried to make the Steelers' playoff loss quickly drift away into a fading memory by rowing through some...
** This post is from contributing author, Pat Burke. ** The stage was set.  I had my truck loaded to the max with fishing gear, pillows, sleeping bags, food, and beer. I thanked my wife again for giving me reprieve and I pushed off a few hours before first light. I...