Note To Self…Don’t Eat the Fish

With all the blogs and websites out on the cyberwebs these days it’s hard to read them all and let’s face it, how many reports about fish and bugs can you actually read before your boss catches you anyways.  Other than this one…haha…aren’t all blogs relatively the same?  Well, there is Buster, which is in […]

 
 
 
 
The beginning of the end to the greatest Atlantic Salmon River in the World began in 1836. 
 
1836 – Atlantic salmon still abundant, but the resource was already declining. (Parsons 1973) Exploitation of the resource for commercial use continued. 12 skiffs in one night take an average of 300 Atlantic salmon each, with the average fish […]

Had a small family reunion of sorts this weekend up at my parent’s cottage in New Hampshire. They have owned a cottage there sonce I was small and I learned to fish in the Lake’s waters. My sister’s boys are 3 and 1 and the 3 year old has been wanting to fish. So when […]

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“Vaya Con Dios” you magnificent SOB!
 

 
Thanks for making the rides to and from distant rivers, plane trips to large trout, and vise time as enjoyable as they are…

OK, so murray sent us down the right path and got a mayfly so but then went on the wrong road so I’ll right the ship with a hint.
Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) » Common Burrower Mayflies (Ephemeridae)
This bug also can be found mixed in with Isonichia (Slate Drakes) and Ephoron leukon (White Flies).

Sorry Bkill, this bug was […]

Name this Trout Food Spinner and I’ll send you an official “The Angler’s Net” Sticker.
I’ll give one for the common name and one for the latin. 
I’ll also give one for anybody who comes up with the location of where it came from.
For the names, reply here…for the location, email me at [email protected]

Good Luck!

 
We here at The Angler’s Net are going to be putting a drive together to help those who have sacrificed for us.  Project Healing Waters is having a weekend outing on the Salmon River in NY some time in Sept.  I will get more details when we get them but the jist of it is that […]

My Bro in Law Paul and I went for a spin in the Osprey. Paul’s not a fisherman but he enjoys being out there and it’s never boring watching Paul fish. You never quite know where the lure is going to go when he hauls back and lets it fly…several times it went nowhere because […]

As the flood waters receded, we can get back to fishing proper. Pierre came up from NYC to get some fishing time in. It was his first experience fly fishing and his fishing experience was limited from what he told me. He was excited and we decided to hit some of the smaller waters around. […]