A Wish Granted: 3 Days at Patagonia’s Tipiliuke Lodge

A Wish Granted: 3 Days at Patagonia’s Tipiliuke Lodge

In a three-day span I’d stalked a red stag, fished for browns and rainbows, then ended up with an exciting hunt for boar. I enjoyed them all at Tipiliuke. Sam Nede arrived at the beach well before daylight. Here on Captiva Island the shell hunters would soon be...
Patagonia Founder: An 81-year-old Millennial

Patagonia Founder: An 81-year-old Millennial

Yvon Chouinard’s passions for fishing, hunting and natural resource conservation have made his name synonymous with sustainability and innovation. Yvon Chouinard is one of the great rebels of our time. He’s forged his own path in business and life –...
Prairie Pike

Prairie Pike

At Cheyenne Ridge Signature Lodge, it’s the “other season” you don’t want to miss. Hedy Lamarr was one of the most glamorous film stars of Hollywood’s “Golden Age.” Viennese by birth, she was invariably cast as a seductress of...
Bay Of Pigs

Bay Of Pigs

Fishing the Bay, you can’t help but feel you’ve been handed the keys to a private kingdom, where the smallmouth bass reigns supreme. I should have gone to her, should have been there in her hour of need. I should have let her collapse in my arms and told...
NH Offers Free Introductory Fly Tying Courses

NH Offers Free Introductory Fly Tying Courses

Registration is now open for the Let’s Go Fishing Program’s fall Introduction to Fly Tying courses being held on Tuesday and/or Thursday evenings in October and November. The classes will be held in Dunbarton and New London and will be taught by master fly tier,...
Degrees of Skunked

Degrees of Skunked

The stream we call Humility Creek gives up trout grudgingly on good days. This was not a good day. The water trickled at half its spring flow while fish shivered with closed mouths. Icicles hung from banks where water seeped. I had tried teasing fish with streamers in...
Water In Desert Places

Water In Desert Places

You can always follow water, whether it still runs free or is merely a latent image left behind in some dry, desert place. From trickles to brooks to streams to torrents, water always runs down to its true source, there to be gathered into the air like so much brood...