New Look

So my wife and I have been working on my blog, and though it is not finished the changes are underway.  Please take a minute and read the new welcome, check out some new pictures, and do not forget to check up on some garden posts Sarah has been putting up.  The transformation should be finished by the end of the week since it is going to be rainy and ugly here till at least Saturday.  As for other changes I want re-think the tabs at the top, and I will be fixing the Outfitters and Online shops pictures to make them blend with the background. 


Other posts to look forward to are a couple reviews (the William Joseph bag, and the Redington Putsuit).  Also I am learning to warm water fly fish, and really starting to love the damsel fly nymph.  Along with this warm water fishing comes some tests on the vise, so I will show you the different damsel flies I have tied.  Lastly I will be doing some surf fishing starting in June so stay tuned for some saltwater action (hopefully I won't need to wait that long)!

-Bruce

National Boating and Fishing Week

So I am very excited about national boating and fishing week (June 4-12) this year for three reasons and here they are.

Reason number one, is I will be taking my wife fishing on either both the 4th and 5th of June as these are the free fish days here in the state of Massachusetts.  She is the reason I starting a blog and I plan on taking her fishing one or both of these days, as a little you share my hobby I share yours thing.  There are a couple nice ponds we can picnic at and she and I will spin fish from the shore.

Reason number two comes from the fact that we already have some plans for that week.  We have an event in New York City early in the week and we will be going there by way of Sarah's parents place in CT.  Which means I'll be fishing here in MA and CT, but it does not end there because my sister graduates high school at the end of the week.  This means Sarah and I will be traveling to PA as well and I plan to have a rod and reel on that trip as well.

Reason number three plays off of the fact that I will be in PA.  While I am in PA with my family I will be able to ask my mom and/or dad to go fishing with me like I did as a little kid.  We have not fished together in years and I think it would be nice to fish with them again.  They are the ones who taught me to fish and who bought me my first fly rod, so maybe I will even try to teach them some fly fishing skills.

So that is my plan for national take me boating and fishing week, what is yours? 

-Bruce

My Week In Fish

Sorry it has been over a week since I posted anything, but if you look at the garden link you will see I have been working on the garden a little, and I have been fishing as well.  Sarah asked me the other day why after catching two new species and trying a new travel method I have not written about it.  Well here are the cliff notes version of the week.

I spin fished a reservoir from the shore early in the week, and landed two new species (Chain Pickerel and Yellow Perch). The other thing that is new is that we are back to being a one car family for about a month. We did this for two years in Atlanta and did just fine so we will make this work till we get the cars and licenses switched to the new state. In the mean time I grabbed my new bag, and my Redington and my TREK. That is right, it is peddle power for about a month. Okay enough typing here are some pictures of my week I caught a lot of trout but only took pictures of a couple of them.

This month's mode of transpotation!

The waters are tinted red/orange here and I think that is why the fish are darker here.

Cahill is still a very popular fly

OKAY friends does this fish look wild or was it stocked this year?

Got this guy on a spin rod, but I'll be on a boat/float tube soon, and that's when I'll be throwing flies at them!

Perch!

This was taken with my phone, and this trout was taken on a quick trip one evening this week.