Category Archives: Travel
DRINK OF THE WEEK: Screech Rum’s Dark & Dirty
You might want to whip up a few drinks with Screech tonight, not because it’s always best to party on a Monday, but because there will be Monday Night Football on TV and because, if you are an Oakland Raiders … Continue reading
Posted in CANADA, Cocktails, Culture, Drink of the Week, Travel
Tagged Dark & Dirty, drinking in Newfoundland, Newfoundland rum, Petitie Cascapedia, Screech Rum
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Your Top Five Steelhead Books
Was perusing some blogs the other day and came across a thread that listed a bloggers top five steelhead books of all time. I know what mine are but I thought it might be fun for all you fellow chrome-heads … Continue reading
Beating Summer’s Fly Fishing Doldrums on the Beaverhead
August isn’t always the best month for fly fishing in the northern Rockies and recent stream closures around the state, including full restrictions on some portions of the Big Hole River, support that notion. However, if you just put a rod … Continue reading
Gearing Up (Sort of) for The Gaspe Peninsula
I’ve been trying to concentrate on local fishing options and have some summer fun, but a trip to eastern Canada’s Gaspe Peninsula for Atlantic salmon is rapidly approaching, and I’m getting fired up about it, not that anyone who lives … Continue reading
Posted in CANADA, Spey, Travel
Tagged Atlantic salmon, Bonaventure River, Fly Fishing for Atlantic Salmon, Gaspe Peninsula, Salmon Lodge
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Back From Fly Fishing Canada’s Yukon Territory
Just back from the Yukon Territory and the work is stacked up and the kids are asking for lunch . . . but before they get sustenance, I thought I would share a few images from the trip. We spent … Continue reading
Trip Update: Kluane Wilderness Lodge on Wellesley Lake, Yukon Territory
As mentioned previously, I’ve been sifting through some invites to great lodges in Canada and I made a choice last week to visit Kluane Wilderness Lodge in the Yukon Territory. It’s located on Wellesley Lake about a two-hour flight by … Continue reading
Best Books for Summer
Being fly fishers, I always think that many of you are avid readers, too. The two passions seem to share a symbiotic relationship. Certainly, all of you read guidebooks, or at least you did at one time, until you became … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Travel
Tagged Adventure Books, Best Summer Books, Best Summer Reading, Best Travel Books, Fly Fishing Books
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Rene Harrop’s 2013 Henry’s Fork Fly Fishing Forecast
Rene Harrop has fished east Idaho’s Henry’s Fork River his entire life. He’s gone toe to toe with all those big rainbows in Box Canyon, outwitted those bankside risers in the Harriman Ranch, mastered those Wood Road giants, and wrecked … Continue reading
Camp Bonaventure Wins Orvis’ Fly Fishing Lodge of The Year Award
If you are thinking about fishing Atlantic salmon this summer or early fall—and, by the way, you should be thinking about fishing Atlantic salmon this summer or fall—you would be doing yourself a favor to visit the Web sites of … Continue reading
Posted in CANADA, Culture, Spey, Travel
Tagged Camp Bonaventure, Gaspe Peninsula Atlantic Salmon Fly Fishing, Quebec, Salmon Lodge
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Fred Thomas Fish Art: Discount
Many of you know that my father, Fred Thomas, is one of the country’s best wildlife artists and I thought I would share his work with you from time to time. Fred is willing to offer a discount to AT … Continue reading