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Summer brings great weather and longer days which makes for good porch-sitting weather. There is no better way to relax than with an entertaining or informative book on fly fishing. I am a reader, and like most readers, I like to be surrounded by my books.
Usually by this time in July, the grass is turning brown, the rivers are low and like bath water. This year, however, my lawn is luscious green and the bushes are out of control.
We’ve been going up on and off for 25 years and we are still trying to figure the river out. Every year we try to find a new area to fish.
Fly fishing protocol states that the fly fishing experience should be serene and almost cathartic. Fly fishing and relaxing are supposed to be one in the same.
I was excited to head back north to some of the rivers that flow into Winnipesaukee after such a successful outing a few weeks before. I felt like I was finally figuring things out. Then the rains came.
So I grabbed a cup of coffee and a protein bar at my local 7-11 and headed north to some of the tributaries that flow into Lake Winnipesaukee.
On a Tuesday evening, deep in the bowels of The Memorial Union Building (The MUB), sits a group of about twenty young men and women with fly tying vises in front of them. This evening, master fly tier and former UNH athletic trainer, Scott Biron is teaching the group to tie a streamer pattern which is sure to catch trout on New Hampshire’s lakes and ponds.
February had its claws on the river. The banks were covered in snow and the edges of the river had ribbons of ice lining both sides, yet it was an improvement over last week when the temperature was a minus 27 with the wind chill.
The Vernal Equinox means different things to different people. For fly Fishers it means more time on the water with a fly rod in your hand.