With seven days in a week, fishing fifty-two times a year should be easy. But it’s not. We fritter away hours, squander days, and unwittingly populate our past with fishless week after fishless week. Father Time is a heartless scoundrel who steals with impunity, and we carelessly neglect to lock Read more…
Much of the fun of getting to know a new fishing buddy is the slow and pleasant process of asking questions about their life and answering questions about yours. “Where’d you grow up?” “What do you do for a living?” “If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” Read more…
Steelhead are not native to Lake Superior. They have, however, made their homes in the great lake and its tributaries since the late 1800’s, and in the minds of many local anglers, this fabricated fishery was designed as a simple two-stage process: put and take. For others of us, it’s Read more…
What can I say, that hasn’t been said by scores?Jimmy Buffett As the sun sank behind the large maple at the end of our driveway, the last day morphed into the last night and I sorted through the last photos. Another trout season had served up its magic, and I Read more…